Face recognition impacts eye wtinesses as they try and identify people from the scene
Buckhout & Regan (1988) - cross-race effect
Poor at recognising faces from other races than our own
In studies about judging gender, Roberts and Bruce (1988) found masking nose made recognition harder than if eyes or mouth were masked
Thought to be good at recognising unfamiliar faces but not where we have seen it
A psychologist was accused of **** by victim who had seen him on TV and confused source of familiarity
Buckhout (1974) - in 2 staged line ups, only 7 out of 52 people correctly identified criminal both times - highlights weakness in EWT in identifying criminal
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