Melissa Colloff (PhD student, Psychology), Dr Kim Wade (Psychology), and Deryn Strange (John Jay College, CUNY) have a new publication. Their paper "Unfair Lineups Make Witnesses More Likely to Confuse Innocent and Guilty Suspects" has just been published in a leading psychology journal, Psychological Science.

In a study containing almost 9000 participants, the authors compare three fair lineup techniques used by the police with unfair lineups in which nothing was done to prevent a distinctive suspect from standing out. The paper highlights the importance of constructing fair lineups for distinctive suspects.

Access the press release here:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/news/getting_digital_line-ups_wrong_can_put_innocents_behind_bars1/

Access the paper, here:

http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/07/21/0956797616655789.abstract