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Lineup position affects guessing-based selection but not culprit-presence detection in simultaneous and sequential lineups.
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- Too good to be true: Synthetic AI faces are more average than real faces and super-recognizers know it.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2026Article
- Validating a multinomial processing tree model for measuring confidence in lineups using a post-response feedback manipulation.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2026Article
- Detection of culprit presence in multiple-culprit crimes: A comparison of combined and separate lineup-presentation formats.PloS one · 2026Article
- Delays reduce culprit-presence detection but do not affect guessing-based selection in response to lineups.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
The two-high threshold eyewitness identification model was applied to investigate the effects of lineup position on the latent cognitive processes underlying eyewitness responses in lineups. In two experiments with large sample sizes and random assignment of culprits and innocent suspects to all possible lineup positions, we examined how detection-based and non-detection-based processes vary across the positions of six-person photo lineups. Experiment 1 (N = 2586) served to investigate position effects in simultaneous lineups in which all photos were presented in a single row. Experiment 2 (N = 2581) was focused on sequential lineups. In both experiments, lineup position had no effect on the detection of the presence of the culprit. Guessing-based selection, in contrast, differed as a function of lineup position. Specifically, a lineup member placed in the first position in a lineup was significantly more likely to be selected based on guessing than lineup members placed in other positions. These results justify the practice of avoiding to place the suspect in the first position in a lineup, as this placement increases the suspect's chance of being selected based on guessing.
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