Sociology 3315F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Eyewitness Identification, First Nations, Overhead Projector
10 Oct 2014
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Examining the cross-race effect in line-up identification using caucasian and first nations. Eye witnesses identifications are regarded as one of the most important methods of apprehending criminals, often considered direct evidence of guilt. The majority of studies on the cross race effect have been done in the united states, and focus specifically on caucasian/black pairings: only 12% of the sample in a previous study included those who weren"t either. 29 caucasian students from the university of regina psych participant pool (age 18-49, 22 women) and were given a course credit, 24 first nations were recruited via sign-up sheets advertising the study from northlands college (age 20-48, 16 women) and received no compensation. The stimuli consisted of 179 photographs of individuals from first nations descent and. 184 of individuals from caucasian descent (2 photographs of each of each face were taken) Caucasian participants were more likely to demonstrate a false alarm cre where as.
