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ERIC Number: EJ1275584
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-0888-4080
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Presence of Administrators Differentially Impacts Eyewitness Discriminability for Same- and Other-Race Identifications
Applied Cognitive Psychology, v34 n6 p1530-1537 Nov-Dec 2020
Best practice guidelines recommend that eyewitness lineup administrators be blind to a suspect's identity, but no research has investigated whether the mere presence of a lineup administrator impacts eyewitness identification decisions. Informed by social facilitation theory, we predicted that the presence of an audience would differentially impact identification accuracy for same- and other-race identifications. Participants (N = 191) viewed same- and other-race lineups either with an audience or alone. Although the presence of an audience did not directly impact identification accuracy, significant indirect effects indicated that the audience provoked evaluation apprehension which hindered other-race identification accuracy and improved same-race identification accuracy. We suggest that using double-blind lineup procedures may not sufficiently protect eyewitness identification accuracy when making other-race lineup decisions in the presence of others.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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