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ERIC Number: EJ1265522
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0888-4080
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Identification from CCTV: Assessing Police Super-Recogniser Ability to Spot Faces in a Crowd and Susceptibility to Change Blindness
Davis, Josh P.; Forrest, Charlotte; Treml, Felicia; Jansari, Ashok
Applied Cognitive Psychology, v32 n3 p337-353 May-Jun 2018
Police worldwide regularly review closed-circuit television (CCTV) evidence in investigations. This research found that London "police experts" who work in a full-time "Super-Recogniser Unit" and front line "police identifiers" regularly making suspect identifications from CCTV possessed superior unfamiliar face recognition ability and, with higher levels of confidence, outperformed controls at locating actors in a bespoke "Spot the Face in a Crowd Test." Police were also less susceptible to change blindness errors and possessed higher levels of conscientiousness and lower levels of neuroticism and openness. Controls who took part in "Spot the Face in a Crowd Test" actor familiarisation training outperformed untrained controls, suggesting this exercise might enhance identification of persons of interest in real investigations. This research supports an accumulating body of evidence demonstrating that international police forces may benefit from deploying officers with superior face recognition ability to roles such as CCTV review, as these officers may be the most likely to identify persons of interest.
Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://www-wiley-com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-us
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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