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Cross‐Racial/Ethnic Eyewitness Identification: A Field Study 1
Author(s) -
Platz Stephanie J.,
Hosch Harmon M.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1988.tb01187.x
Subject(s) - ethnic group , identification (biology) , psychology , wilcoxon signed rank test , social psychology , test (biology) , field (mathematics) , demography , political science , sociology , law , mathematics , curriculum , biology , paleontology , pedagogy , botany , pure mathematics
Using a method similar to that of Brigham, Maass, Snyder, and Spaudling (1982), 86 adult convenience store clerks were asked to identify 3 confederate/customers, one Anglo‐American, one black‐American, and one Mexican‐American who had visited their stores 2 hours earlier. Wilcoxon matched pairs signed‐rank test showed that clerks were superior at identifying customers of their own racial or ethnic group, Z = 2.84, p < .002. For clerks who made an identification, the correlation between the recognition accuracy and confidence in their identification was not significant, r pbis (56)= .05. The results of this field study paralleled those found in most laboratory experiments of cross‐racial/ethnic identification and demonstrated that Mexican‐Americans are subject to the own/other groups identification accuracy phenomenon as well.