Showup identification decisions for multiple perpetrator crimes: Testing for sequential dependencies.

ABSTRACT: Research in perception and recognition demonstrates that a current decision (i) can be influenced by previous ones (i-j), meaning that subsequent responses are not always independent. Experiments 1 and 2 tested whether initial showup identification decisions impact choosing behavior for subsequent showup identification responses. Participants watched a mock crime film involving three perpetrators and later made three showup identification decisions, one showup for each perpetrator. Across both experiments, evidence for sequential dependencies for choosing behavior was not consistently predictable. In Experiment 1, responses on the third, target-present showup assimilated towards previous choosing. In Experiment 2, responses on the second showup contrasted previous choosing regardless of ta

SUBMITTER: Tupper N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6283529 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature