TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - The impact of multiple show-ups on eyewitness decision-making and innocence risk
JO  - Journal of experimental psychology: applied
A1  - Smith, Andrew M.
A1  - Bertrand, Michelle
A1  - Lindsay, Rod C. L.
A1  - Kalmet, Natalie
A1  - Grossman, Deborah
A1  - Provenzano, Daniel
SP  - 247
EP  - 259
VL  - 20
IS  - 3
N2  - If an eyewitness rejects a show-up, police may respond by finding a new suspect and conducting a second show-up with the same eyewitness. Police may continue finding suspects and conducting show-ups until the eyewitness makes an identification (Study 1). Relatively low criterion-setting eyewitnesses filter themselves out of the multiple show-ups procedure by choosing the first suspect with whom they are presented (Studies 2 and 3). Accordingly, response bias was more stringent on the second show-up when compared with the first, but became no more stringent with additional show-ups. Despite this stringent shift in response bias, innocence risk increased with additional show-ups, as false alarms cumulate (Studies 2 and 3). Although unbiased show-up instructions decreased innocent suspect identifications, the numbers were still discouraging (Study 4). Given the high number of innocent suspects who would be mistakenly identified through the use of multiple show-up procedures, using such identifications as evidence of guilt is questionable. Although evidence of guilt is limited to identifications from a single show-up, practical constraints might sometimes require police to use additional show-ups. Accordingly, we propose a stronger partition between evidentiary and investigative procedures. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1076-898X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xap0000018
ID  - ref1
ER  -