Face and voice identifications in showups and lineups

✍ Scribed by A. Daniel Yarmey; A. Linda Yarmey; Meagan J. Yarmey

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 835 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0888-4080
• DOI: 10.1002/acp.2350080504

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Witnesses were asked to identify a young adult female target to whom they had spoken for 15 seconds five minutes earlier in a naturalistic field setting. Subjects were given a single facial photograph or a single tape‐recorded voice of either the target or a highly similar foil, or a target‐present or target‐absent six‐person photo lineup or six‐person voice lineup. Identification of the target was superior in the six‐person photo lineup than in the one‐person photo lineup when choices were corrected for guessing. False identifications of the ‘innocent’ suspect did not differ in one‐person and six‐person photo lineups. However, the diagnosticity index indicated that witnesses were twice as likely to be more accurate than inaccurate in making a selection with the six‐person photo lineup than in the one‐person lineup. Performance was poor in both one‐person and six‐person voice lineups. With the exception of the target‐absent one‐person photo lineup, no significant correlations were found between confidence and performance.