TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - When emotions get the better of us: the effect of contextual top-down processing on matching fingerprints
JO  - Applied cognitive psychology
A1  - Dror, Itiel E.
A1  - Péron, Ailsa E.
A1  - Hind, Sara-Lynn
A1  - Charlton, David
SP  - 799
EP  - 809
VL  - 19
IS  - 6
N2  - 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> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0888-4080
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acp.1130
ID  - ref1
ER  -