The US legal system increasingly accepts the idea that the confidence expressed by an
eyewitness who identified a suspect from a lineup provides little information as to the …

Can purely psychological trauma lead to a complete blockage of autobiographical
memories? This long-standing question about the existence of repressed memories has …

Eyewitness memory is widely believed to be unreliable because (a) high-confidence
eyewitness misidentifications played a role in over 70% of the now more than 300 DNA …

The dual-process theory of recognition memory holds that recognition decisions can be
based on recollection or familiarity, and the remember/know procedure is widely used to …

Prior research points to a meaningful confidence-accuracy (CA) relationship for positive
identification decisions. However, there are theoretical grounds for expecting that different …

Objective: Although there are many lab-based studies demonstrating the utility of confidence
and decision time as indicators of eyewitness accuracy, there is almost no research on how …

Recent research using a calibration approach indicates that eyewitness confidence
assessments obtained immediately after a positive identification decision provide a useful …

Objective: We investigated the impact of eyewitness confidence on the following dependent
variables:(a) guilty or not-guilty verdict;(b) judgments of guilt as measured on a scale; and (c) …

Increasing research shows that high eyewitness confidence at the time of an initial
identification is a strong predictor of accuracy (Wixted & Wells, 2017). However, as with all …

Participants encountered same‐race and cross‐race faces at encoding, completed a series
of line‐up identification tests and provided confidence ratings by using one of nine different …