Testing encoding specificity and the diagnostic feature-detection theory of eyewitness identification, with implications for showups, lineups, and partially disguised perpetrators
Abstract The diagnostic feature-detection theory (DFT) of eyewitness identification is based on facial information that is diagnostic versus non-diagnostic of suspect guilt. It primarily has been tested by discounting non-diagnostic information at retrieval, typically by surrounding a single suspect...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2021-03-01
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Series: | Cognitive Research |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00276-3 |