Witnesses confuse innocent and guilty suspects with ‘unfair’ lineups

Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 19:11 in Psychology & Sociology

Police lineups in which distinctive individual marks or features are not altered can impair witnesses’ ability to distinguish between innocent and guilty suspects, according to new research in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The research, conducted by a team of psychology researchers from the University of Warwick in the UK, […]

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