@article{ref1,
title="When emotions get the better of us: the effect of contextual top-down processing on matching fingerprints",
journal="Applied cognitive psychology",
year="2005",
author="Dror, Itiel E. and Péron, Ailsa E. and Hind, Sara-Lynn and Charlton, David",
volume="19",
number="6",
pages="799-809",
abstract="Twenty-seven participants made a total of 2,484 judgments whether a pair of fingerprints matched or not. A quarter of the trials acted as a control condition. The rest of the trials included top-down influences aimed at biasing the participants to find a match. These manipulations included emotional background stories of crimes and explicitly disturbing photographs from crime scenes, as well as subliminal messages. The data revealed that participants were affected by the top-down manipulations and as a result were more likely to make match judgments. However, the increased likelihood of making match judgments was limited to ambiguous fingerprints. The top-down manipulations were not able to contradict clear non-matching fingerprints. Hence, such contextual information actively biases the ways gaps are filled, but was not sufficient to override clear bottom-up information. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0888-4080",
doi="10.1002/acp.1130",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acp.1130"
}