Are individuals' familiarity judgments diagnostic of prior contact?

摘要: The extensive eyewitness memory research literature has been restricted to for strangers. Although it is often assumed that eyewitnesses are more accurate identifying familiar than unfamiliar individuals, little known about whether individuals’ familiarity judgments diagnostic of prior contact. Caucasian and Asian sophomores (N � 139) in two small private high schools viewed yearbook pictures (a) graduated students from their school who were seniors (fourth year) when participants freshmen (first (familiar) (b) responded each was ‘familiar’. design completely crossed; faces at served as the other school. Based on d? data, cross-race effect resulted judgments. Also, although contact, accuracy low (mean hit rate 0.42; mean false alarm 0.23), rendering an eyewitness’s report having seen a perpetrator casually past limited forensic value.