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Nationwide Survey of Policies and Practices in Eyewitness Identification: Full Report

Date Published

September 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Double-blind photo lineups using actual eyewitnesses: An experimental test of a sequential versus simultaneous lineup procedure.

Journal

Law and Human Behavior

Date Published

2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Eyewitness Identification: A Systematic Investigation of Lineup Composition and Fairness

Date Published

2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Mistaken Identification: The Eyewitness, Psychology, and the Law

Date Published

1995

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Issue Overview

Final Report: Evaluating a New Technique for Improving Eyewitness Identification

Date Published

1991

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Use and Effectiveness of Hypnosis and the Cognitive Interview for Enhancing Eyewitness Recall: User's Guide to the Machine-Readable Files and Documentation and Codebook

Date Published

1990

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Measurement/Evaluation Device, Handbook

Science of Advocacy

Date Published

January 1984

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Mock Jurors’ Evaluations of Eyewitness Identification Evidence Based on Appearance Change and Associated Instructions

Journal

Psychology Crime & Law

Date Published

August 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Was He the Perpetrator or a Bystander? Testing Theories of Unconscious Transference for Eyewitness Identification

Journal

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Date Published

2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Effects of Internal Versus External Distinctive Facial Features on Eyewitness Identification

Journal

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Date Published

January 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Cognitive Science and the Law

Journal

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Date Published

2007

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Learning Context and the Other-Race Effect: Strategies for Improving Face Recognition

Journal

Vision Research

Date Published

April 2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Face Recognition Ability Does not Predict Person Identification Performance. Using Individual Data in the Interpretation of Group Results

Journal

Cognitive Research-Principles and Implications

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Suppression and Memory for Childhood Traumatic Events: Trauma Symptoms and Non-Disclosure

Journal

Topics in Cognitive Science

Date Published

June 2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Keep it simple: Concise instructions may help jurors devalue eyewitness courtroom confidence when evaluating suspect guilt

Journal

Psychology Crime & Law

Date Published

February 2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Sleepy Eyewitness: Self-Reported Sleep Predicts Eyewitness Memory

Journal

Sleep

Date Published

2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Virtual Workshop: Qualifications of an Expert Witness for Legal Professionals – The Daubert Standard

Event Dates

August 2, 2023

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Not Required

Series

Virtual Workshop Series: Qualifications of an Expert Witness for Legal Professionals

How potential jurors evaluate eyewitness confidence and decision time statements across identification procedures and for different eyewitness decisions

Journal

Psychology Crime & Law

Date Published

2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The effect of viewing distance on empirical discriminability and the confidence-accuracy relationship for eyewitness identification

Journal

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Date Published

2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The number of fillers may not matter as long as they all match the description: The effect of simultaneous lineup size on eyewitness identification

Journal

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Date Published

2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Ethnically Diverse Adolescents Recount Third-Party Actions That Amplify Their Anger and Calm Their Emotions After Perceived Victimization

Journal

Journal of Adolescent Research

Date Published

2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

School and Teacher Factors That Promote Adolescents' Bystander Responses to Social Exclusion

Journal

Frontiers in Psychology

Date Published

January 2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

One perpetrator, two perpetrators: The effect of multiple perpetrators on eyewitness identification

Journal

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

"I Felt Like a Hero:" Adolescents' Understanding of Resolution-Promoting and Vengeful Actions on Behalf of Their Peers

Journal

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Molecular eyewitness: Forensic prediction of phenotype and ancestry

Journal

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Date Published

2011

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)