Although reports of post-identification confidence are not always reliable indicators of eyewitness accuracy, jurors rely heavily on eyewitness confidence to evaluate eyewitnesses. Face memory ability tests, however, provide objective information about a person’s ability to encode and recognize a face and affects the strength of the connection between confidence statements and accuracy. This study examines how jurors and lay persons might interpret this information. By: Adele Quigley-McBride, William Crozier, Chad S. Dodson, Jennifer Teitcher, and Brandon Garrett — Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (2022).
