Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1993

Publication Title

Journal of Social Psychology

First Page

365

Last Page

376

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1993.9712155

Abstract

Three experiments were conducted to explore the credibility of earwitness versus eyewitness testimony among American college students. Experiment 1 demonstrated that subjects were less likely to identify the perpetrator of a simulated crime in auditory lineups than in visual or auditory-visual lineups. In Experiment 2, subjects observed a videotaped witness from Experiment 1 make an identification. Contrary to actual accuracy data, subjects were as believing of the identifications made by auditory witnesses as they were of the identifications made by visual or auditory-visual witnesses. In Experiment 3, mock jurors in a simulated robbery trial believed auditory lineup identifications as much as they did visual or auditory-visual lineup identifications.

Rights

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published in the Journal of Social Psychology in 1993, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00224545.1993.9712155.

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