Eye Witness Identification
Although the phrase "they all look alike to me" is widely known and used as a joke
(Goldstein & Chance, 1985) the implications that the phrase yields may not be as widely
understood as they should be. In the criminal justice system, eyewitness identifications can play a
major role in the decisions made by jurors even though it has been shown that jurors have little
awareness of factors that affect the reliability of eyewitness accounts (Cutler, Penrod, & Dexter,
1990). One such factor is identifications made by people identifying someone of a different race,
(when describing race as Caucasian, of African descent, of Asian descent, or Latino),
which can be referred to as other-race identification or other-race recognition (Lavrakas, Buri, &
Mayzner, 1976). If the phrase "they all look alike to me", which states that people of another
group appear homogenous, is true for most people then it is possible that other-race
identifications should......
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