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HAVARD, Catriona, BREESE, Emily, THIRKETTLE, Martin, KASK, Kristjan and LEOL, Kris-Loreen (2023). A background of bias: subtle changes in line up backgrounds increase the own race bias. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology.
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Abstract
In police photo lineups there can sometimes be small variations in shades and hues of the background images due to the faces being filmed under different lighting and cameras. Own race bias refers to a situation where people are better at remembering the faces of those who are the same race as them and find it more difficult to recognise faces from a different race. In this paper we investigated the influence of small colour variations in backgrounds for the recognition of Black and White faces. Across 3 experiments we found when small changes were introduced into the backgrounds of the images this increased false identifications for previously unseen Black faces, but not White faces. This finding suggests that the police need to ensure that the backgrounds of the photo lineups they use are all uniform to reduce mistaken identifications of innocent suspects.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Face recognition, eyewitness identification, own race bias, biased backgrounds; 1602 Criminology; 1701 Psychology; 4402 Criminology; 5201 Applied and developmental psychology; 5205 Social and personality psychology |
| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-023-09578-2 |
| SWORD Depositor: | Symplectic Elements |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Elements |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Feb 2023 13:25 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Oct 2023 16:30 |
| URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/31548 |
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