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Tupper, Nina; Geisendörfer, Anna K.; Lorei, Clemens; Sporer, Siegfried L.; Tredoux, Colin G.; Sauerland, Melanie – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2023
Court instructions and public perception endorse that eyewitness evidence provided by police should weight more heavily than laypeople's in court. Evidence is inconsistent. The current experiment provides a nuanced analysis of identification performance of police and laypeople at different levels of confidence. Laypeople and advanced police…
Descriptors: Police Education, Court Litigation, Evidence, Identification
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Williot, Alexandre; Blanchette, Isabelle – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
Threat detection is an important skill for police officers, but few studies have examined the impact of processing strategies on this ability. The first aim of our study was to compare the visual detection of threatening and neutral targets in 38 police trainees and 53 police officers. The other aims were to examine the effect of emotional or…
Descriptors: Police Education, Police, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis