ArticleCognitive research: principles and implications2019
Lineup fairness: propitious heterogeneity and the diagnostic feature-detection hypothesis.
Article in Cognitive research: principles and implications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 9 papers.
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- New Insights on Expert Opinion About Eyewitness Memory Research.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- On the advantages of using AI-generated images of filler faces for creating fair lineups.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Using objective measures to examine the effect of suspect-filler similarity on eyewitness identification performance.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2023Article
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- Using objective measures to examine the effect of suspect-filler similarity on eyewitness identification performance.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2022Article
- Toward a more comprehensive modeling of sequential lineups.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2022Article
- Testing encoding specificity and the diagnostic feature-detection theory of eyewitness identification, with implications for showups, lineups, and partially disguised perpetrators.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2021Article
- Optimizing the selection of fillers in police lineups.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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- Erratum issued
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Researchers have argued that simultaneous lineups should follow the principle of propitious heterogeneity, based on the idea that if the fillers are too similar to the perpetrator even an eyewitness with a good memory could fail to correctly identify him. A similar prediction can be derived from the diagnostic feature-detection (DFD) hypothesis, such that discriminability will decrease if too few features are present that can distinguish between innocent and guilty suspects. Our first experiment tested these predictions by controlling similarity with artificial faces, and our second experiment utilized a more ecologically valid eyewitness identification paradigm. Our results support propitious heterogeneity and the DFD hypothesis by showing that: 1) as the facial features in lineups become increasingly homogenous, empirical discriminability decreases; and 2) lineups with description-matched fillers generally yield higher empirical discriminability than those with suspect-matched fillers.
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