Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150101905

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP150101905

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Who should join the suspect in a police photo array? The traditional police line-up often produces inaccurate decisions, with witnesses failing to pick the culprit or picking an innocent suspect. Surprisingly, despite all the scientific advances with respect to the collection of eyewitness evidence, there is absolutely no objective basis for selecting the ‘fillers’ to accompany the suspect in the line-up. Guidelines merely suggest the fillers should not be too similar or too dissimilar to the suspect. However, the fillers are likely to have a crucial influence on decision accuracy. This project aims to remedy this striking deficiency by developing and testing a flexible and universally applicable methodology for photo array composition that will optimise judgmental discriminability and curtail bias.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2015

End Date: 12-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $558,700.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance | Psychology | Forensic Psychology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Law Enforcement |

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