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blank police lineup procedure  

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  • "Prior to showing the witness a line-up that contains the police suspect (the real line-up), the witness is shown an additional line-up that contains only known to be innocent fillers (the blank line-up). This procedure was designed as a method of screening witnesses in terms of the reliability of their identification decisions. Witnesses who choose from the blank line-up (initial choosers) can be screened out as poor witnesses who tend to pick from line-ups too liberally and likely have poor memories of the culprit. Those who reject the blank line-up (initial non-choosers) can be regarded as relatively reliable." (Kucina et al., 2020, p. 1419).

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  • blank lineup
  • blank lineup procedure
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  • • Kucina, T., Sauer, J. D., Holt, G. A., Brewer, N., & Palmer, M. A. (2020). Refining the blank line‐up procedure: How should we instruct eyewitnesses? Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34(6), 1419–1429. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3719

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Palmer, M. A., Brewer, N., & Weber, N. (2012). The information gained from witnesses’ responses to an initial “blank” lineup. Law and Human Behavior, 36(5), 439–447. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0093939

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

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  • Frank Arnould

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