Improving face identification with specialist teams.

ABSTRACT: People vary in their ability to identify faces, and this variability is relatively stable across repeated testing. This suggests that recruiting high performers can improve identity verification accuracy in applied settings. Here, we report the first systematic study to evaluate real-world benefits of selecting high performers based on performance in standardized face identification tests. We simulated a recruitment process for a specialist team tasked with detecting fraudulent passport applications. University students (n = 114) completed a battery of screening tests followed by a real-world face identification task that is performed routinely when issuing identity documents. Consistent with previous work, individual differences in the real-world task were relatively stable across

SUBMITTER: Balsdon T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6021458 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature