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Misinformation About the Misinformation Effect

This study partially replicated the research of Cook, Kwak, Hoffman, & Loftus where they examined post-event activities that induces subjects to pick a wrong person in a forced choice identification procedure. The goal was to investigate if providing a neither option to a match to sample task increases the accuracy of responding. Subjects were asked to study three faces for 10 seconds, after which they were asked to pick out the faces in a forced choice setting where two other faces were presented. Later the subjects were asked to pick out faces in a setting in which they could use a neither option. Results indicated that a generalization effect occurs when identifying faces and the effect is seen as subjects choosing the wrong face. This suggests that when using faces with some similar features in a lineup setting the procedure may cause the subject to pick the wrong person.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc149598
Date08 1900
CreatorsHalvorsen, Lars I.
ContributorsRosales-Ruiz, Jesus, Pinkston, Jonathan, Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
RightsPublic, Halvorsen, Lars I., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved.

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