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Research article summary:
Adult age differences in unconscious transference: source confusion or identity blending?
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Eyewitnesses are known often to falsely identify a familiar but innocent bystander when asked to pick out a perpetrator from a lineup. Such unconscious transference errors have been attributed to either identity confusions at encoding or source retrieval ... (Full abstract text below) Published 2003Jun
in Journal: Mem Cognit
(Language : eng)
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2003 Jun;31(4):570-80
Adult age differences in unconscious transference: source confusion or identity blending?
Perfect TJ, Harris LJ
Department of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, England. tperfect@plymouth.ac.uk
Eyewitnesses are known often to falsely identify a familiar but innocent bystander when asked to pick out a perpetrator from a lineup. Such unconscious transference errors have been attributed to either identity confusions at encoding or source retrieval errors. Three experiments contrasted younger and older adults in their susceptibility to such misidentifications. Participants saw photographs of perpetrators, then a series of mug shots of innocent bystanders. A week later, they saw lineups containing bystanders (and others containing perpetrators in Experiment 3) and were asked whether any of the perpetrators were present. When younger faces were used as stimuli (Experiments 1 and 3), older adults showed higher rates of transference errors. When older faces were used as stimuli (Experiments 2 and 3), no such age effects in rates of unconscious transference were apparent. In addition, older adults in Experiment 3 showed an own-age bias effect for correct identification of targets. Unconscious transference errors were found to be due to both source retrieval errors and identity confusions, but age-related increases were found only in the latter.
PMID : 12872873 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]
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| First Name | LastName | Initials |
| Timothy J | Perfect | TJ |
| Lucy J | Harris | LJ |
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, England. tperfect@plymouth.ac.uk
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