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Direct linkHannes M. Körner; Franz Faul; Antje Nuthmann – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
Observers' memory for a person's appearance can be compromised by the presence of a weapon, a phenomenon known as the weapon-focus effect (WFE). According to the unusual-item hypothesis, attention shifts from the perpetrator to the weapon because a weapon is an unusual object in many contexts. To test this assumption, we monitored participants'…
Descriptors: Weapons, Eye Movements, Observation, Familiarity
