The effect of pre-event instructions on eyewitness identification.

ABSTRACT: Research on eyewitness identification often involves exposing participants to a simulated crime and later testing memory using a lineup. We conducted a systematic review showing that pre-event instructions, instructions given before event exposure, are rarely reported and those that are reported vary in the extent to which they warn participants about the nature of the event or tasks. At odds with the experience of actual witnesses, some studies use pre-event instructions explicitly warning participants of the upcoming crime and lineup task. Both the basic and applied literature provide reason to believe that pre-event instructions may affect eyewitness identification performance. In the current experiment, we tested the impact of pre-event instructions on lineup identification decisions a

SUBMITTER: Baldassari MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9975131 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature