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Earwitnesses: The effect of type of voice lineup in identification accuracy and the realism in confidence judgments

Zetterholm, Elisabeth ; Sarwar, Farhan LU and Allwood, Carl Martin (2010) The XXIIIth Swedish Phonetics Conference 54. p.113-118
Abstract
This contribution is a partial report from a study of the identification accuracy and realism in the confidence judgments of the correctness in the identification reports in two kinds of target-present voice lineup. 24 men and 54 women were asked to identify a voice that they had heard previously in a dialogue context that simulated the planning of a burglary by two males 22 and 27 years old. The voice lineup either consisted of recordings of each of six male speakers reading a text from a book (text-lineup condition) or each of the same six speakers having a spontaneous dialogue with another male speaker (dialogue-lineup condition). Each recording lasted 30 seconds. The results showed a

tendency (p<.06) for better accuracy and... (More)
This contribution is a partial report from a study of the identification accuracy and realism in the confidence judgments of the correctness in the identification reports in two kinds of target-present voice lineup. 24 men and 54 women were asked to identify a voice that they had heard previously in a dialogue context that simulated the planning of a burglary by two males 22 and 27 years old. The voice lineup either consisted of recordings of each of six male speakers reading a text from a book (text-lineup condition) or each of the same six speakers having a spontaneous dialogue with another male speaker (dialogue-lineup condition). Each recording lasted 30 seconds. The results showed a

tendency (p<.06) for better accuracy and better ability to separate correct from incorrect identification responses by means of ones’ confidence judgments for the text-lineup condition compared with the dialogue-lineup condition. The text-lineup condition also showed a tendency for lower overconfidence. These results deviate from expectations following from the encoding specificity principle in memory psychology (Tulving & Thomson, 1973), maybe because text reading provides a more varied representation of the features of the human voice compared to dialogues. (Less)
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ear witnesses, realism, forensic, voice lieup
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Working Papers 54, Proceedings from Fonetik 2010
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S, Schötz and G, Ambrazaitis
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54
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113 - 118
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Lund University. Department of Linguistics and Phonetics
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The XXIIIth Swedish Phonetics Conference
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2010-06-02 - 2010-06-04
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English
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tendency (p&lt;.06) for better accuracy and better ability to separate correct from incorrect identification responses by means of ones’ confidence judgments for the text-lineup condition compared with the dialogue-lineup condition. The text-lineup condition also showed a tendency for lower overconfidence. These results deviate from expectations following from the encoding specificity principle in memory psychology (Tulving &amp; Thomson, 1973), maybe because text reading provides a more varied representation of the features of the human voice compared to dialogues.}},
  author       = {{Zetterholm, Elisabeth and Sarwar, Farhan and Allwood, Carl Martin}},
  booktitle    = {{Working Papers 54, Proceedings from Fonetik 2010}},
  editor       = {{S, Schötz and G, Ambrazaitis}},
  keywords     = {{ear witnesses; realism; forensic; voice lieup}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{113--118}},
  publisher    = {{Lund University. Department of Linguistics and Phonetics}},
  title        = {{Earwitnesses: The effect of type of voice lineup in identification accuracy and the realism in confidence judgments}},
  volume       = {{54}},
  year         = {{2010}},
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