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Publication Date: 2022
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Improving Face Identification of Mask-Wearing Individuals
Manley, Krista D.; Chan, Jason C. K.; Wells, Gary L.
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, v7 Article 27 2022
Research has consistently shown that concealing facial features can hinder subsequent identification. The widespread adoption of face masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical and urgent need to discover techniques to improve identification of people wearing face coverings. Despite years of research on face recognition and eyewitness identifications, there are currently no evidence-based recommendations for lineup construction for cases involving masked individuals. The purpose of this study was to examine identification accuracy of a masked perpetrator as a function of lineup type (i.e., unmasked or masked lineups) and perpetrator presence (i.e., absent or present). In both experiments, discriminability was superior for masked lineups, a result that was due almost exclusively to higher hits rates in target-present conditions. These data suggest that presenting a masked lineup can enhance identification of masked faces, and they have important implications for both eyewitness identification and everyday face recognition of people with face coverings.
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Recognition (Psychology), Identification, COVID-19, Pandemics, Clothing, Criminals, Accuracy
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