The role of experimenter familiarity in children's eyewitness identification.
| Autor: | Calderwood L; Division of Psychology, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, UK., Ballantyne C; Division of Psychology, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, UK., Slee K; Division of Psychology, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, UK. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law [Psychiatr Psychol Law] 2023 Apr 26; Vol. 31 (2), pp. 147-160. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 26 (Print Publication: 2024). |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13218719.2023.2175071 |
| Abstrakt: | Child eyewitnesses show a high false identification rate on target-absent (TA) lineups despite good performance on target-present (TP) lineups. One explanation is that children feel a social pressure to choose when presented with a TA lineup. We investigated whether experimenter familiarity would reduce social pressure and improve accuracy on TA lineups. Children (5-7 years, N = 120) watched a short video of a staged theft; 1-2 days later they completed a TP or TA lineup with a familiar or unfamiliar experimenter. Experimenter familiarity had an impact on lineup response in TA lineups only, with more correct 'not there' and fewer 'not sure' responses when the children were familiar with the experimenter. The results provide further evidence to support the social aspect of eyewitness identification decisions in children and provide a possible strategy to improve identification accuracy for those working with children in the criminal justice system. Competing Interests: Lesley Calderwood has declared no conflicts of interest Carrie Ballantyne has declared no conflicts of interest Kimberley Slee has declared no conflicts of interest (© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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