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Mistaken but highly confident eyewitness testimony has been used to convict innocent people in more than 220 criminal cases in the United States.
Research has shown that confirming post-identification feedback (e.g., "good job, you identified the suspect") commonly given to eyewitnesses might be partially to blame for these wrongful convictions because it inflates eyewitnesses’ reports of their confidence and impairs the ability of evaluators to discern whether an eyewitness made an accurate or a mistaken identification.
The purpose of this study was to test a safeguard for protecting against and correcting for the impairing effects of confirming post-identification feedback on evaluators’ abilities to discriminate between accurate and mistaken eyewitness testimony.
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