Enabling witnesses to actively explore faces and reinstate study-test pose during a lineup increases discriminability.

ABSTRACT: Accurate witness identification is a cornerstone of police inquiries and national security investigations. However, witnesses can make errors. We experimentally tested whether an interactive lineup, a recently introduced procedure that enables witnesses to dynamically view and explore faces from different angles, improves the rate at which witnesses identify guilty over innocent suspects compared to procedures traditionally used by law enforcement. Participants encoded 12 target faces, either from the front or in profile view, and then attempted to identify the targets from 12 lineups, half of which were target present and the other half target absent. Participants were randomly assigned to a lineup condition: simultaneous interactive, simultaneous photo, or sequential video. In the front-

SUBMITTER: Meyer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10576112 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature