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popout effect in eyewitness identification  

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  • The “popout” effect refers to the subjective experience of witnesses who report virtually immediate or apparently automatic recognition of the perpetrator of a crime from a photo array or lineup. Researchers have detected this experience among witnesses by asking them to endorse one of several statements about the decision strategy they used when making their decision about a simultaneous lineup. [Source: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law; Popout Effect in Eyewitness Identification]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-TFWRL547-8

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