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The Impact of Fillers on Lineup Performance
(2017)
Filler siphoning theory posits that the presence of fillers (known innocents) in a lineup protects an innocent suspect
from being chosen by siphoning choices away from that innocent suspect. This mechanism has been proposed ...
Eyewitness Identification and the Accuracy of the Criminal Justice System
(Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2015-10-01)
This article addresses the problem of eyewitness identification errors that can lead to false convictions of the innocent and false acquittals of the guilty. At the heart of our analysis based on signal detection theory ...
Workload and Performance in FOPA: A Strategic Planning Interface for Air Traffic Control
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2000-07-01)
The Flight Organizer Planning Aid (FOPA) interface was designed to aid strategic planning in air traffic control. In particular, FOPA was designed to address difficulties in solving en route sequencing problems (combining ...
Aiding Planning in Air Traffic Control: An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Perceptual Information Integration
(Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2002-09-01)
Prior research examined how controllers plan in their traditional environment and identified various information uncertainties as detriments to planning. A planning aid was designed to reduce this uncertainty by perceptually ...
Policy Regarding the Sequential Lineup Is Not Informed by Probative Value but Is Informed by Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis
(Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2014-02-01)
It is important to determine if switching from simultaneous to sequential lineups affects response bias (the inclination to make an identification from a lineup), discriminability (the ability to distinguish between innocent ...
Making TV Commercials as a Teaching Aid for Cognitive Psychology
(Teaching of Psychology, 1992-10-01)
Many students approach psychology in general, and cognitive psychology in particular, with serious misconceptions about the scientific nature of the discipline. In order to address this problem and bring laboratory findings ...
Evaluating Eyewitness Identification Procedures Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis
(Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2014-02-01)
Eyewitness identification is a pivotal issue in applied research because, in practice, a correct identification can help to remove a dangerous criminal from society, but a false identification can lead to the erroneous ...