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The Effects Of Repeated Lineups And Delay On Eyewitness Identification, Wenbo Lin Dec 2017

The Effects Of Repeated Lineups And Delay On Eyewitness Identification, Wenbo Lin

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Prior eyewitness research has examined the effects of repeated identification procedures and delays on eyewitness identification, but these studies have either confounded these two factors or studied them in isolation. Experiment 1 attempted to disentangle these factors through systematic manipulations of the number of repeated lineups and the length of delay between the original event and the first lineup. Experiment 2 examined whether the length of delay between two lineups (Lineups 1 and 2) affects the subsequent lineup identification decisions. We found that people were more inclined to choose when a lineup was repeated. A longer delay between the crime …