Children’s metacognitive judgments in an eyewitness identification task

Keast, Amber; Brewer, Neil; Wells, Gary L.

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2007.01.007

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“…In the adult eyewitness literature, confidence, if it is taken immediately after the lineup identification decision, is predictive of accuracy (see Mickes et al, 2012, andRoediger, Wixted, &DeSoto, 2012, for a review). The evidence is mixed in children, however, with some studies indicating that confidence can be predictive of accuracy (e.g., Leippe et al, 1991;Parker & Carranza, 1989;Parker & Ryan, 1993), yet others finding that children's confidence is not predictive of accuracy (e.g., Brewer & Day, 2005;Keast et al, 2007). In the present study, memory sensitivity was higher for adults compared to young children at every confidence level, indicating strong support for the late maturation hypothesis.…”

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“…1986;Parker & Ryan, 1993). In work that has employed a calibration approach, deficits have also been found in in children's (11-year olds) ability to discriminate between correct and incorrect decisions, relative to adults (Keast, et al, 2007). However, modest correlations between confidence and accuracy were observed for 11 year old and adult choosers in the same study.…”

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“…However, this method is known to underestimate the confidenceaccuracy relationship (see Juslin, Olsson, & Winman, 1996). Research using an alternative method, the calibration approach, which assesses whether confidence ratings provide a probabilistic estimate of accuracy, children's meta-cognitive judgments have also been found to be less accurate than adults (Keast, Brewer, & Wells, 2007). Yet, for adult witnesses, when confidence is measured immediately following the lineup identification decision, confidence can predict accuracy (see Mickes et al, 2012, andRoediger, Wixted, &DeSoto, 2012, for a review).…”

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Receiver operating characteristic analysis of age-related changes in lineup performance

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In the basic face memory literature, support has been found for the late maturation hypothesis, which holds that face recognition ability is not fully developed until at least adolescence. Support for the late maturation hypothesis in the criminal lineup identification literature, however, has been equivocal, because of the analytic approach that has been used to examine age-related changes in identification performance. Recently, Receiver Operator Characteristics (ROC) analysis was applied for the first time in the adult eyewitness memory literature to examine whether memory sensitivity differs across different types of lineup tests (Gronlund et al. 2012;Mickes, Flowe, & Wixted, 2012). ROC analysis allows for the separation of memory sensitivity from response bias in the analysis of recognition data. Here, we make the first ROC-based comparison of adults' and children's (5-6 years and 9-10 years) memory performance on lineups by reanalysing data from Humphries, Holliday, & Flowe 3 (2012). In line with the late maturation hypothesis, memory sensitivity was significantly greater for adults compared to young children. Memory sensitivity for older children was similar to adults. The results indicate that the late maturation hypothesis can be generalized to account for age-related performance differences on an eyewitness memory task. The implications for developmental eyewitness memory research are discussed.

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“…In fact, so far this year (2007), nearly a third of the published research papers on eyewitness identification utilize anecdotes of mistaken identification cases to introduce their topic of inquiry (Busey & Loftus, 2007;Haw, Dickinson, & Meissner, 2007;Keast, Brewer, & Wells, 2007;Krug, 2007;Lindsay, 2007;MacLin, & Phelan, 2007;Neuschatz, Lawson, Fairless, Powers, Neuschatz, & Goodsell, 2007;Remijn, & Crombag, 2007;Wells & Hasel, 2007). Additionally, DNA exoneration cases in relation to the issue of mistaken eyewitness identification are also cited in cases in which eyewitness memory experts have been involved (e.g., People v. Adams, 2008;People v. Copeland, 2007;United States v. Burton, 1998).…”

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Limitations of Expert Psychology Testimony on Eyewitness Identification

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Ebbesen³

2009

Expert Testimony on the Psychology of Eyewitness Identification

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“…1 Further, confidence is no guarantee of accuracy (e.g., Sporer, Penrod, Read, & Cutler, 1995;Keast et al, 2007).…”

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Children's Eyewitness Identification as Implicit Moral Decision‐Making

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2012

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Why are young children particularly prone to make false positive errors or false alarms when identifying a wrongdoer? In three studies, the problem was approached using a signal detection analysis, focusing on the moral costs of false alarms, as understood at different points in development. The findings are as follows: (i) decisional criteria became more conservative, indicating fewer false alarms, with age in three studies; (ii) children's beliefs about the seriousness of false alarms and misses changed from (a) a non-moral concern to (b) a moral concern for misses to (c) a moral concern for false alarms. (iii) These findings were replicated in two demographically different communities. More critically, (iv) framing of the filmed event, for example, as a moral transgression (stealing) or a pro-social (helping) act (Study 1) and as intentional with little damage or unintentional with major damage (Study 3), interacts with age in influencing decisional criteria.

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Children’s metacognitive judgments in an eyewitness identification task

Cited by 59 publications

References 54 publications

Receiver operating characteristic analysis of age-related changes in lineup performance

Receiver operating characteristic analysis of age-related changes in lineup performance

Limitations of Expert Psychology Testimony on Eyewitness Identification

Children's Eyewitness Identification as Implicit Moral Decision‐Making

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