chapter 22 issues in eyewitness testimony simona ghetti research institute on judicial systems, national research council, bologna, italy jennifer m. schaaf university of north carolina, chapel hill jianjian qin california state university, sacramento gail s. goodman university of california, davis eyewitness accuracy has been the subject of controversy for thousands of years. Qualities of the unreal. Thus, our analyses were carried out on a smaller dataset, not containing all statements provided by the witnesses. Bull. (2006). 10:703. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00703. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.36.12.1546 Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI Given that questions in the cued recall phase sometimes asked for a detail the participant had mentioned during free recall, we focused on responses during cued recall to avoid associating the same confidence score to two different reports of the same information. This result clearly calls for a reconsideration and broadening of how the temporal aspect of memory retrieval should be measured in future studies on cues related to memory accuracy. 20, 973–985. doi: 10.1037/0021-9010.81.5.587, Robinson, M. D., Johnson, J. T., and Herndon, F. (1997). This is one issue of obvious relevance for future research. Next, two new blind coders coded the frequency of verbal and paraverbal expressions of effort in in each statement. Reality monitoring theory (or “source monitoring”; Johnson et al., 1993) suggests that memories of real and imagined events differ in a set of attributes, and that people rely on these differences when determining the source of their memory. Thus, it is important to understand how witness skills and limitations may be affected by age. Aim: To test their hypothesis that the language used in eyewitness testimony can alter memory.. J. Mem. This document describes the use of eyewitness testimony in court and factors that make it both reliable and unreliable. Behav. Hence, our findings should ideally be replicated with larger samples. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. The editor and reviewers' affiliations are the latest provided on their Loop research profiles and may not reflect their situation at the time of review. Extensive interviews with the people involved in the case as well as Elizabeth Loftus and Gary Wells. In this table, effect sizes are given as Akaike Weights. 9. Psychol. Purpose To examine legal professionals’ knowledge of a wide range of factors that affect eyewitness accuracy in China. Safer, How to Analyze the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony in a Criminal Case, 42 CONN. L. REV. For example, whereas non-word fillers in the Lindholm et al. 423-434. It is widely accepted that people tend to find eyewitness testimony compelling and persuasive (e.g. People of all ages are involved in the criminal justice system as witnesses. Psychol. Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature. We next examined whether a model including all the significant variables from the first set of regressions improved fit relative to each of the separate models with significant predictors. Psychol. Ellis HD, Shepherd JW and Davies GM. Psychology has built the only scientific literature on eyewitness identification and has warned the justice system of problems with eyewitness identification evidence. Psychol. (2018), confidence did not contribute uniquely to variation in memory accuracy when controlling for effort cues. 2007 and Lindsay, et al. Previous research has demonstrated that response latency is reliably related to memory accuracy (Brewer et al., 2006; Koriat and Ackerman, 2010; Ackerman and Koriat, 2011; Weidemann and Kahana, 2016), and in the current study (in line with previous findings), correct responses were initiated faster than incorrect ones. Sci. Share. (2018) recently provided support for this notion. DECEMBER 1974 DOI: 10.3758/BF03336715 CITATIONS 100 READS 2,332 2 AUTHORS: Elizabeth F Loftus University of California, Irvine 343 PUBLICATIONS 16,897 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Zanni Guido none 87 PUBLICATIONS 215 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Behav. After seeing the film, participants were interviewed about their memory of the event. Psychol. Hence for these cues, interrater reliability was not measured. 17, 406–417. 6 (2003); see also Dripps, supra note 8, at 638-39 ("None of these explanations seems very powerful."). Koriat, A. Cogn. On the other hand, while response latency gives the exact timing before response initiation, pauses and hesitations during the response are not included in this measure. As the witness reported his/her memory, the interviewer wrote down the answers (e.g., “the offender had a green hat”) on a numbered sheet. Memory and the feeling-of-knowing experience. American Crime Journals Commentary on Las Vegas Review Journal Article 11/05/18; Statement Analysis; Curiouser and Curiouser “Moore” Tangents; Featured. Moreover, while this first study examined temporal aspects of witnesses’ responses, this was not measured as the exact latency before a response as in previous studies, but rather in terms of a courser measure of delays before and during a response, unspecified with regard to length. Safer, How to Analyze the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony in a Criminal Case, 42 CONN. L. REV. For these effort codings, we calculated the agreement between coders both with Cohen’s kappa (κ), as well as the percentage of exact overlap, that is, the degree to which codings of the cues by one coder corresponded with regard to both cue type and exact cue position in each testimony coded by the other coder. The study was conducted in full in accordance with the ethical principles outlined on http://www.codex.vr.se/, and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments. The Trouble with Eyewitness Identification Testimony in Criminal Cases Greg Hurley, Knowledge and Information Services Analyst, National Center for State Courts Research has found that eyewitness-identification testimony can be very unreliable. Based on their results, it is hypothesized that retrieval effort cues (i.e., hedges, delays, and fillers) as well as confidence will predict memory accuracy. Eyewitness memories are often critical sources of information for investigating what happened during a criminal offense (Wells et al., 2006). It seems possible that the exact latency (a continuous measure) before initiation of a response is a more fine-tuned and better predictor of memory accuracy than a courser delay (discrete) measure, and that such a latency measure may even make other effort cues redundant. (2009). While previous attempts modestly support the idea that instructions may improve accuracy of judgments (Koriat and Ackerman, 2010), research on the benefits of such training is scarce. The datasets analyzed for this study, and the code for the analyses, have been deposited in the Open Science Framework. “Metacognition and consciousness,” in Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness, eds P. D. Zelazo, M. Moscovitch, and E. Thompson (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press), 289–395. Following the interview, the experimenter read out the details the witness had reported, and after each one, the witness wrote down his/her confidence in the accuracy of the statement, ranging from 0 to 100%, on a sheet with numbers corresponding to that of the experimenter. Richard A Wise, Clifford S. Fishman & Martin A. 59, 1–38. doi: 10.1037/xap0000175, Lindsay, D. S., Read, J. D., and Sharma, K. (1998). For example they may be required to give a description at a trial of a robbery or a road accident someone has seen. (1998, December). 2. McNally, Richard. Retrieval effort cues predict eyewitness accuracy. (2016). Cogn. J. Exp. Hence, we ran a model including Hedges, Delays, Word Fillers and Confidence (Model 8), and a model in which Delays were swapped for Response latency (Model 9), and compared the two models’ fit to data (see Table 2 for parameter estimates and fit indices). For over 35 years, scholars have searched with little success for a legal safeguard that can sensitize jurors to eyewitness testimony. doi: 10.1348/135532506X152949, Lindholm, T. (2008b). This yielded a total of 790 correct answers and 253 incorrect statements. 2003. In other research using a legal testimony format, when witnesses received a direct examination (concerning the main details seen in a video) and a cross-examination (designed to get them to endorse misinformation), there was no interaction of age with type of examination—all age groups were less accurate on cross-examination (Brimacombe, Jung, Garrioch, & Allison, 2003). Although it has been a matter of some debate over the years, the now prevailing view is that there is a consistent positive, albeit not perfect, relationship between confidence and recognition accuracy (Wixted et al., 2015; Wixted and Wells, 2017; see also Sporer et al., 1995; Juslin et al., 1996; Lindsay et al., 1998). Appl. Paraverbal indicators of deception: a meta-analytic synthesis. Correcting experience-based judgments: the perseverance of subjective experience in the face of the correction of judgment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. J. Appl. It is widely accepted that people tend to find eyewitness testimony compelling and persuasive (e.g. “The curious complexity between confidence and accuracy in reports from memory,” in Memory and Law, eds L. Nadel and W. Sinnott-Armstrong (New York, NY: Oxford University Press), 84–117. Eyewitness confidence and latency: indices of memory processes not just markers of accuracy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 36:1546–1557. Results showed that incorrect memories included more “effort cues” than correct memories. Deception and truth detection when analyzing nonverbal and verbal cues. In two studies, participants were interviewed about their memory of a simulated crime event. Over the last three decades, psychologists have made important discoveries, and applied those discoveries to the legal system in myriad ways. doi: 10.1037/h0022263, Ibabe, I., and Sporer, S. L. (2004). Mem. As noted in the introduction, research suggests that people generally find it difficult to judge the accuracy of others’ memories (Lindholm, 2005, 2008a,b). A. Moreover, our findings suggest that a coarser, but more inclusive measure of delays before and during a response explains more variance in accuracy than response latency. Eyewitness Testimony. Moreover, when comparing a model including response latency with a model including the coarser, but more inclusive measure of delays, the latter was found to explain more variance in accuracy than exact response latency. Psychol. Multimodel inference: understanding AIC and BIC in model selection. Lang. 22, 1304–1316. Appl. On the course of answering questions. doi: 10.18637/jss.v067.i01, Brewer, N., Caon, A., Todd, C., and Weber, N. (2006). As we wanted to examine both effort cues and confidence in relation to memory accuracy, we decided to utilize the data for which confidence was also obtained. We further expect that confidence will not provide unique variance in predicting accuracy once the effort cues are accounted for.   Here's what you need to know about how eyewitness testimony works and why its reliability is often questioned. (2018) study predicted accuracy, this cue was not significantly related to accuracy in our study. J. Exp. Statements including partly correct and partly incorrect information (e.g., “he was wearing a white [incorrect] jacket [correct]”) were excluded. Twenty-two psychology students (15 female; mean age = 24.50 years, SD = 4.97) with normal or corrected-to-normal vision took part in the study in exchange for a movie voucher. Sci. Themis: Research Journal of Justice Studies and Forensic Science Volume 2Themis: Research Journal of Justice Studies and Forensic Science, Spring 2014 Article 7 5-2014 Neuroimaging and Eyewitness Testimony Applied eyewitness testimony research: System variables and estimator variables. The authors explored the relevance of research on change blindness to eyewitness identification and testimony under intentional and incidental memory conditions. We then analyzed retrieval effort cues in witness responses. Using the GCU library, search for two peer-reviewed journal articles on eyewitness testimony using the search term “memory and eyewitness testimony.” Read the articles, then in 750-1,000 words, do the following: Briefly summarize the findings from each article. 126, 349–370. The studies did not include factors that require ethical vetting according to Swedish legislation on research ethics, http://www.epn.se/en/start/regulations/. Open Sci. Since these techniques rely on patterns across several criteria in a testimony (e.g., sensory-, spatial-, time information, and clarity, etc. Extensive work has also shown that older adult witnesses are viewed as less believable than younger witnesses (Allison, Brimacombe, Hunter, & Kadlec, 2006). doi: 10.1007/s10979-008-9152-x, R Core Team. Psych Yogi’s Top Ten Psychology Revision Tips for the A* Student 11, 192–196. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00907.x, Krahmer, E., and Swerts, M. (2005). Softw. Google Scholar Easterbrook, J. 67, 1–48. Seven questions were asked each week in the same order and of the same content. 435 (2009) This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at CUA Law Scholarship Repository. 13, 107–121. Mean amounts of effort cues and confidence (z-transformed) in accurate and inaccurate statements for each variable are presented in Figure 1. As the theoretical assumption from cue-utilization theory is that confidence is based on cues rather than derived from memory accuracy directly, we examined whether effort cues mediated the relationship between confidence and accuracy. Psychol. Further Reading . The aim of the current study is to test the robustness of the Lindholm et al. (1995). Experience-based judgments are mainly concerned with the memory processes per se, such as the ease with which the memory is retrieved, rather than, as within the reality monitoring framework, the content of the memory. Figure 1. (2018), there were also some differences between these studies. First, there is a slight variation between the studies regarding which specific cues contributed uniquely in predicting accuracy. Hence, if cues to a memory’s strength can be identified and measured, then such cues may provide a better estimate of accuracy than confidence judgments. 0000012663 00000 n J. While our procedure allowed witnesses to search their memory without being interrupted, this method may have had implications for their confidence ratings. Our analyses largely followed the procedure outlined in Field (2009) and Mansour et al. 0000012696 00000 n Moreover, while the previous study demonstrated that effort cues fully mediated the relationship between accuracy and confidence, our results suggest partial mediation. Apple Inc. (2018). 3, 159–174. Reality monitoring can also be based on one’s prior knowledge and beliefs, such as judging a memory of a flying pig as imagined due to the knowledge that pigs cannot fly. Brigham and Bothwell Reference Brigham and Bothwell 1983), but psychological results on the misinformation effect suggest that the memories that are the source of eyewitness testimony can be distorted, suggesting that people should approach the testimony with more scepticism than they … Appl. Higher confidence and shorter response latency for correct answers was found both for verbal recall as well as for recognition judgments. ... Home Eyewitnesses Misinformation Effect and Eyewitness Testimony Part II. Shortly thereafter, a second man approaches the first man, attacks and stabs him in the gut, before leaving. 18, 711–726. J. Appl. Choosing, confidence, and accuracy: a meta-analysis of the confidence-accuracy relation in eyewitness identification studies. The deterioration of verbal descriptions of faces over different delay intervals. To assess which model had the best fit, we compared Akaike Weights for each model. doi: 10.1037/0033-295X.88.1.67, Juslin, P., Olsson, N., and Winman, A. Learn. %PDF-1.3 %���� 123 0 obj << /Linearized 1.0 /L 101948 /H [ 12739 464 ] /O 126 /E 13203 /N 29 /T 99443 /P 0 >> endobj xref 123 15 0000000015 00000 n Despite replicating the main findings of Lindholm et al. Dev. (interrater reliability Cohen’s κ = 0.97, exact overlap = 91%); (2) Word Fillers – e.g., “meaningless” words like “you know,” “well,” etc. Received: 13 November 2018; Accepted: 13 March 2019;Published: 29 March 2019. J. Mem. Unlike expert testimony, eyewitness testimony is immediately understood by even the most confused, inattentive, or ignorant juror. Loftus EF. R: A language and environment for statistical computing. 88, 67–85. Eyewitness testimony remains an important element in resolving criminal investigations. Cogn. Change Blindness and Eyewitness Testimony. While differentiating between sincere correct and incorrect memories may be critical to reaching valid judicial decisions, research has demonstrated that people have great difficulty in judging the accuracy of others’ memories (Lindholm, 2005, 2008a,b). Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior, 13(5), 585-589. One case study is presented. 0000001477 00000 n Psychol. Table 2 illustrates the model parameter estimates and fit indices. We also measured Delays – a pause longer than 2 s before or during a response. Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior, 13(5), 585-589. Rev. Although playing a central role in criminal investigations and decision-making, eyewitness evidence has often been found to be unreliable, and constitutes a major contributing factor behind wrongful convictions (Garrett, 2011; Innocence project, 2018). 2007 address a wide range of issues relating to memory for events and people, respectively. Eyewitness testimony. Individual and situational factors in eyewitness testimony.Journal of Applied Psychology, 63(3), 352–359. Previous studies have demonstrated that factors that affect the discriminability of correct and incorrect memories, such as retention interval, may also change the relationship between response latency and accuracy (Brewer et al., 2006). Copyright © 2019 Gustafsson, Lindholm and Jönsson. These effort cues included delays (pauses between or within statements), hedges, that is, commitment avoidance (e.g., “I think,” “maybe”), as well as word fillers (e.g., “well”) and non-word fillers (i.e., expressions without clear meaning, e.g., “uhm”). J. Educ. Brigham and Bothwell 1983), but psychological results on the misinformation effect suggest that the memories that are the source of eyewitness testimony can be distorted, suggesting that people should approach the testimony with more scepticism than they are predisposed to. (2018). Eyewitness identification accuracy and response latency. Journals; Read our COVID-19 research and news. Initial eyewitness confidence reliably predicts eyewitness identification accuracy. In line with research findings within the framework of cue-utilization theory, candidates for these sources are likely found in the theory-based realm of cues, that is, in people’s beliefs and knowledge about memory (e.g., Matvey et al., 2001; Nussinson and Koriat, 2008). *Correspondence: Philip U. Gustafsson, philip.gustafsson@psychology.su.se, Front. “Understanding the relation between confidence and accuracy in reports from memory,” in Psychology Press Festschrift Series. This foundational text covers the key areas of eyewitness testimony and the classic studies that underlie this area of research, in a highly accessible manner. Although playing a central role in criminal investigations and decision-making, eyewitness evidence has often been found to be unreliable, and constitutes a major contributing factor behind wrongful convictions (Garrett, 2011; Innocence project, 2018). (2018) (see Table 1), the following effort cues were coded: (1) Non-word Fillers – interjections and sounds like “hm,” “uh,” etc. Field, A. As explained previously, the cue-utilization view proposes that confidence judgments are not directly derived from the strength of memories but are based on internal (experience-based judgments) and external cues (information-based judgments), which are presumably related to a memory’s accuracy. (2011). Finally, we measured a fifth effort cue, Response latency (see Table 1). In transcripts of these interviews, measures of effort were obtained by identifying a number of cues indicating retrieval difficulty. Despite a great deal of research on the subject, the understanding of the effects that witness gender might have on their testimony remains rather limited. 7, 45–75. In the study by Lindholm et al. The finding of new, objectively verifiable cues that may be linked to eyewitness accuracy constitutes an important first step for developing methods to improve evaluations of eyewitness memory. Results showed that our model with multiple predictors significantly improved fit compared to the models with only Hedges, χ2(3) = 20.52, p < 0.001, wi(AIC) = 0.99; Delays, χ2(3) = 24.45, p < 0.001, wi(AIC) = 0.99; Word Fillers, χ2(3) = 42.95, p < 0.001, wi(AIC) = 0.99; and Confidence, χ2(3) = 18.88, p < 0.001, wi(AIC) = 0.99. Abstract: This study examined the effect of the wording of interview questions on eyewitness testimony. Sociol. Foon, A.E. Taken together, this study lends new support to the notion that retrieval effort in eyewitness responses is central for discriminating accurate from inaccurate recall of event details. ... Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 34 … The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00703/full#supplementary-material, Ackerman, R., and Koriat, A. Psychology, Crime and Law 13(3): 317-331. EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY PSYCHOLOGY. Lindholm et al. Despite its importance to the judicial process, relatively little research has examined the extent to which erroneous eyewitness memories may differ from those that are accurate. AIC model selection using akaike weights. 33, 506–514. Link to code for analyses: https://osf.io/8kjnv/?view_only=baadf99fa8f7446e989f04d9a5e344bf. Eyewitness testimony is a legal term. Softw. Journal of Police Science and Administration 1980: 8: 101-106. J. Exp. Psychol. Eyewitness Testimony, 40 CT. REV. While the interviews in our study were designed to simulate real eyewitness interviews, there are important limitations that restrict the generalizability of the findings to real world settings. 114, 3–28. Extending the previous findings, the current study also measures the effort cue response latency and explores the contribution of this factor relative to the other effort cues in predicting accuracy. ��6!�8th;-�$����=�IfT�m�?o�[P �������⮐A��J�jQ����������P�'�P�C{V|c3^��+^j�-��.Ϲe��w���p���5��_x�jv̕a-/={��xi�-��)sm���foq;Jx={�5I��Jx�x�$� ~0Z�/�P���}$P�޾A.�ȰB��=)�'�2��HРg�QUM=t�n����. This exemplifies that eyewitness accounts and eyewitness testimony is not always one hundred percent ... Journal of Law and Human Behavior. The videotaped interviews were then transcribed verbatim (including fillers like “uhm,” “uh,” and self-talk). Discovering Statistics Using SPSS. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Schacter 2001 describes what the author calls the seven “sins” of memory, … Law Hum. When participants later took a test with the same questions, they were quicker to respond to, and more confident in answers they had been exposed to before, compared to non-exposed answers. Hence, a first step to test the practical value of the current findings would be to give evaluators instructions on cues related to accuracy, and then examine their performance in using these cues when assessing the accuracy of transcribed testimonies. EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY 8 Similarly, cross-gender identifications are significantly less accurate than own-gender identifications: 76% v. 72% (Cutler, 1995). For example, Kelley and Lindsay (1993) showed that manipulating how easy a memory is to retrieve affects how confident a person is that the memory is correct. 1 . Metacogn. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511978531, Weidemann, C. T., and Kahana, M. J. doi: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2005.tb02180.x, Lindholm, T. (2008a). Are multiple-trial experiments appropriate for eyewitness identification studies? Journal of Criminal Justice 8(4) DOI: 10.1016/0047-2352(80)90010 ... conversely, when they are resistant. doi: 10.1002/acp.3457, Vrij, A., Fisher, R. P., and Blank, H. (2017). Psychol. Of these, confidence was obtained for 275 correct and 103 incorrect statements. Methods A total of 812 participants, including 210 judges, 244 prosecutors, 202 police officers, and 156 defense attorneys, were asked to respond to 12 statements about eyewitness testimony and 3 basic demographic questions (i.e., gender, age, and prior experience). The same results were obtained in a study by Robinson et al. Published: 14 November 2013; Eyewitness ... Marston, W. M. Studies in testimony. These results pointed in the same direction for all the cues, as correct statements contained fewer cues to retrieval effort compared to incorrect statements (see Figure 1). Cognition 84, 73–111. Recently, Loftus and her associates have demonstrated that the ability of subjects to respond accurately to questioning about an event they witnessed can be systematically imparied by the interposition of misleading questions between exposure to the event and assessment of accuracy. While assessing memory accuracy based on signs of retrieval effort in an ongoing interview might prove difficult, the cues found to predict memory in our study should be fairly easy to learn to use when assessing accuracy from transcribed testimonies. Psychol. Given the evidence that memory accuracy is related to retrieval ease as measured by response latency, other cues of the ease with which a memory is retrieved should also predict accuracy. All authors contributed to interpretation of analyses and approved the final version of the manuscript. 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