@article{ref1,
title="Witnesses' blindness for their own facial recognition decisions: a field study",
journal="Behavioral sciences and the law",
year="2013",
author="Sagana, Anna and Sauerland, Melanie and Merckelbach, Harald",
volume="31",
number="5",
pages="624-636",
abstract="In a field study, we examined choice blindness for eyewitnesses' facial recognition decisions. Seventy-one pedestrians were engaged in a conversation by two experimenters who pretended to be tourists in the center of a European city. After a short interval, pedestrians were asked to identify the two experimenters from separate simultaneous six-person photo lineups. Following each of the two forced-choice recognition decisions, they were confronted with their selection and asked to motivate their decision. However, for one of the recognition decisions, the chosen lineup member was exchanged with a previously unidentified member. Blindness for this identity manipulation occurred at the rate of 40.8%. Furthermore, the detection rate varied as a function of similarity (high vs. low) between the original choice and the manipulated outcome. Finally, choice manipulations undermined the confidence-accuracy relation for detectors to a greater degree than for blind participants. Stimulus ambiguity is discussed as a moderator of choice blindness. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0735-3936",
doi="10.1002/bsl.2082",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2082"
}