Eyewitness identification: Retrospective self-awareness and the accuracy–confidence correlation.

Kassin, Saul M.

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.49.4.878

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“…Kassin (1985) obtained higher confidence-accuracy relationships for participant-witnesses who engaged in retrospective self-awareness, which is a strategy designed to provide the participant-witnesses with insight into various aspects of their own behavior. In Kassin's research, participants viewed videotape of a staged crime and subsequently attempted to identify the culprit from a lineup.…”

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Participants' free‐hand drawings of a target face can influence recognition accuracy and the confidence–accuracy correlation

McClure

Shaw

2002

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Two experiments were conducted to examine the effects of participants' free-hand drawings on recognition accuracy and confidence for targets presented in a standard recognition paradigm and a lineup identification task. For both experiments, drawing a target influenced recognition accuracy and the confidence-accuracy correlation. In Experiment 1, the confidence-accuracy correlation was higher for participants completing a drawing than controls. Experiment 2 examined the drawings in relation to participants' decision to choose from the lineups. Once choosing was statistically controlled, the confidence-accuracy correlation for drawers was not higher than controls. These results suggest that the drawing influences the confidence-accuracy correlation by decreasing the likelighood of erroneously rejecting a target-present lineup.

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Section: Implications For Eyewitness Confidence and Accuracymentioning

confidence: 99%

Participants' free‐hand drawings of a target face can influence recognition accuracy and the confidence–accuracy correlation

McClure

Shaw

2002

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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“…Several moderators of the size of the accuracykonfidence correlation have been identified whose effects are consistent with predictions of the optimality hypothesis. By giving witnesses video feedback of themselves making an identification, Kassin (1985) showed that the accuracykonfidence correlation is improved (r = .48) as compared with a no-feedback condition (r = .04). found that duration of suspect face exposure correlated .51 with the accuracykonfidence correlations reported for their sample of 35 studies.…”

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A Maturing of Research on the Behaviour of Eyewitnesses

Deffenbacher

1991

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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More than a decade of sustained, vigorous research has resulted in an applied cognitive psychology of eyewitness behaviour that is a rapidly maturing body of knowledge. Several developments now would permit police forces to increase the sensitivity, reliability, and fairness of eyewitness memory retrieval. The juror's task of estimating the effects of certain variables on the accuracy of eyewitness report can now be a much more informed one, the relevant research literature now being relatively clear and consistent. Across studies the effect size of a number of these variables is moderate or greater. Equally important has been the consistent failure to document several results that would be predicted from the common-sense intuition of juror and jurist alike. (1983) published a controversial article in the American Psychologist entitled 'Eyewitness identification: what can a psychologist tell a jury?' Their implicit answer was 'not much'. They did state, a year later, however, that they 'would like nothing better than to be able to rewrite that article in 10 years with the answer being "a lot" ' McCloskey, 1984, p. 1069). Several years ago, McCloskey and EgethThough 10 years have not passed since the publication of their article, I should like to suggest that apsychologist can now tell police quite a bit, as well. The reliability and consistency of much of this exportable knowledge is respectably high. In a number of instances where the existence of a phenomenon has been demonstrated, the effect size (Cohen, 1977) of a result across studies is moderate (d = S O ) or greater. In several other instances where a meta-analysis has not been performed so as to allow an estimate of the effect size of a variable impacting eyewitness behaviour, the effect has at least been consistently obtained across studies with little in the way of null results having been reported. The consistency of failure to document several phenomena has also been impressive.To facilitate exposition I will use Wells's (1978) system variable/estimator variable dichotomy as an organizational framework. System variables are, of course, those over which the criminal justice systems has control, while estimator variables have to do with parameters connected with the particular criminal incident and individuals involved, and can only be estimated post hoc. I will discuss system variables as they impact on the encoding, storing, and retrieving of eyewitness memories. The emphasis on memory operations seems entirely appropriate in this instance, inasmuch as actions taken or not taken by the criminal justice system have very demonstrable impacts at each of these stages of memory trace processing.Though in some cases estimator variables likewise have been shown to have rather

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“…In other words, confidence can be an important source of information (Bonaccio & Dalal, 2006;Yaniv, 1997). Confidence and accuracy often co-vary (Sniezek, 1992) but the relationship can be weak (Deffenbacher, 1980;Kassin, 1985;Klayman, Soll, González-Vallejo, & Barlas, 1999;Shaw & McClure, 1996;Wells, Lindsay, & Ferguson, 1979;Wells, 1993) and sometimes they are uncorrelated (Brewer & Wells, 2006;Ekman & O'Sullivan, 1991).…”

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Cheap Talk and Credibility: The Consequences of Confidence and Accuracy on Advisor Credibility and Persuasiveness

Sah

MacCoun

2011

SSRN Journal

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Eyewitness identification: Retrospective self-awareness and the accuracy–confidence correlation.

Cited by 89 publications

References 38 publications

Participants' free‐hand drawings of a target face can influence recognition accuracy and the confidence–accuracy correlation

Participants' free‐hand drawings of a target face can influence recognition accuracy and the confidence–accuracy correlation

A Maturing of Research on the Behaviour of Eyewitnesses

Cheap Talk and Credibility: The Consequences of Confidence and Accuracy on Advisor Credibility and Persuasiveness

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