The effect of a suggestive interviewer on the performance of repeated eyewitness showup identifications
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- FUKUSHIMA Yui
- The Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nihon University
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- MIURA Hiroshi
- Keio Advanced Research Centers, Keio University
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- ITSUKUSHIMA Yukio
- College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University
Bibliographic Information
- Other Title
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- 面接者の誘導が繰り返しの 写真識別判断に与える影響
- ─「わからない」判断を用いた検討
- A study using a DON’T KNOW option.
Abstract
The present study examined whether providing a DON’T KNOW option reduce the influence of a suggestive interviewer on the performance of eyewitnesses in repeated showup identification procedures. Fifty-seven participants eye-witnessed a staged event in which a man took a wallet from an unattended bag; they were later interviewed twice. Each interview included two showup identification procedures: one with a suggestive interviewer and the other with a non-suggestive interviewer. In the showup identification procedure, the participants were shown pictures depicting a man and choose one of the three responses: YES, NO, or DON’T KNOW. The person who took the wallet was never in the picture shown, so a YES response was an incorrect identification (i.e. false alarm), and NO was a correct rejection. In the suggestive condition, the participants chose the YES significantly more often than NO and DON’T KNOW, while in the non-suggestive condition, NO and DON’T KNOW were significantly more frequent than YES. This indicates that providing a DON’T KNOW option does not reduce the influence of a suggestive interviewer. Furthermore, the participants in the suggestive condition tended to maintain their first identification response more often than the participants in the non-suggestive condition. The results were interpreted according to the conformity theory of memory.
Journal
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- Japanese Journal of Law and Psychology
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Japanese Journal of Law and Psychology 16 (1), 100-111, 2016
The Japanese Society for Law and Psychology
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390282680209210112
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- NII Article ID
- 130006321781
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- ISSN
- 24241148
- 13468669
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- CiNii Articles
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed