@article{ref1,
title="When snitches corroborate: effects of post-identification feedback from a potentially compromised source",
journal="Psychiatry, psychology and law",
year="2016",
author="Erickson, William Blake and Lampinen, James Michael and Wooten, Alex and Wetmore, Stacy and Neuschatz, Jeffrey",
volume="23",
number="1",
pages="148-160",
abstract="Feedback provided to eyewitnesses can influence memory as to how confident their previous line-up selections were. Witnesses given confirming feedback remember being more confident than witnesses who are told their selection was incorrect regardless of their accuracy. This can have a powerful impact on judges and juries. In this article, we examine the effect of feedback from a 'snitch' (a jailhouse informant). This manipulation often occurs in real cases, despite that fact that snitches could have something to gain from providing information to police. Our participants witnessed a staged crime and then identified the perpetrator from a target-absent line-up. Two days later, participants were provided with feedback and were probed for confidence. <br><br>RESULTS show that confirming feedback from a snitch has the same effect as a confession made by the actual suspect, and disconfirming feedback reduces confidence. Implications and relation to the extant literature on eyewitness confidence are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1321-8719",
doi="10.1080/13218719.2015.1035623",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2015.1035623"
}