Delays reduce culprit-presence detection but do not affect guessing-based selection in response to lineups

Abstract Police lineups are conducted with varying delays between the crime and the lineup. Crime-to-lineup delays may adversely affect the detection of the presence and absence of the culprit in the lineup and may potentially affect guessing-based selection. In the present study we examined how the...

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Published in:	Scientific Reports
Main Authors:	Amelie Therre, Raoul Bell, Nicola Marie Menne, Carolin Mayer, Ulla Lichtenhagen, Axel Buchner
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Nature Portfolio 2025-08-01
Subjects:	Police lineups Eyewitness identification Two-high threshold eyewitness identification model Delay Multinomial processing tree model
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-13937-w

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