People have been convicted of crimes they didn’t commit on the basis of eyewitness memory. To reduce the likelihood of injustice, researchers suggest a simple, no-cost reform, “Test a witness’s memory of a suspect only once,”.
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Experts have devised a novel approach to selecting photos for police lineups that helps witnesses identify culprits more reliably.
In a paper published by the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers - from the University of California San Diego and Duke University in the United States and the University of Birmingham in the U.K. - show for the first time that selecting fillers who match a basic description of the suspect but whose faces are less similar, rather than more, leads to better outcomes than traditional approaches in the field.
The counterintuitive technique improves eyewitness performance by about 10 percent.