TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - How Should Witnesses Regulate the Accuracy of Their Identification Decisions: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?
JO  - Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory, and cognition
A1  - Perfect, Timothy J.
A1  - Weber, Nathan
SP  - 1810
EP  - 1818
VL  - 38
IS  - 6
N2  - Explorations of memory accuracy control normally contrast forced-report with free-report performance across a set of items and show a trade-off between memory quantity and accuracy. However, this memory control framework has not been tested with lineup identifications that may involve rejection of all alternatives. A large-scale (N = 439) lineup study explored regulation of identification decisions either with an initial forced-choice decision followed by free-report decision or with the reverse. Overall, initial free-report decisions provided stronger evidence of suspect guilt than forced-choice decisions, with little cost to memory quantity. The 2 response orders produced different patterns of response associated with control of accuracy. A model based on evaluation of the strength of the best candidate answer was able to provide only a partial fit to the data, suggesting that witnesses use more than simple memory strength of a candidate answer when controlling the accuracy of their responses in free report. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0278-7393
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0028461
ID  - ref1
ER  -