Digital Detectives: Websleuthing Reduces Eyewitness Identification Accuracy in Police Lineups

Digital Detectives: Websleuthing Reduces Eyewitness Identification Accuracy in Police Lineups

Eyewitnesses to crimes sometimes search for a culprit on social media before viewing a police lineup, but it is not known whether this affects subsequent lineup identification accuracy. The present online study was conducted to address this. Two hundred and eighty-five participants viewed a mock cri...

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Main Authors: Camilla Elphick, Richard Philpot, Min Zhang, Avelie Stuart, Graham Pike, Ailsa Strathie, Catriona Havard, Zoe Walkington, Lara A. Frumkin, Mark Levine, Blaine A. Price, Arosha K. Bandara, Bashar Nuseibeh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
digital detective
websleuth
eyewitness
lineup identification
police lineup
social media
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.640513/full

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https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.640513/full

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