The confidence of eyewitnesses in their identifications from lineups Article

Wells, GL, Olson, EA, Charman, SD. (2002). The confidence of eyewitnesses in their identifications from lineups . CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 11(5), 151-154. 10.1111/1467-8721.00189

cited authors

  • Wells, GL; Olson, EA; Charman, SD

authors

abstract

  • The confidence that eyewitnesses express in their lineup identifications of criminal suspects has a large impact on criminal proceedings. Many convictions of innocent people can be attributed in large part to confident but mistaken eyewitnesses. Although reasonable correlations between confidence and accuracy can be obtained under certain conditions, confidence is governed by some factors that are unrelated to accuracy. An understanding of these confidence factors helps establish the conditions under which confidence and accuracy are related and leads to important practical recommendations for criminal justice proceedings.

publication date

  • January 1, 2002

published in

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

start page

  • 151

end page

  • 154

volume

  • 11

issue

  • 5