Convicting with confidence? Why we should not over-rely on eyewitness confidence

THE RELIABILITY OF EYEWITNESS CONFIDENCE 1 Initial Eyewitness Confidence Reliably Predicts Eyewitness Identification Accuracy

Eyewitness memory is widely believed to be unreliable because (1) high-confidence eyewitness misidentifications played a role in over 70% of the now more than 300 DNA exonerations of wrongfully convicted men and women, (2) forensically-relevant laboratory studies have often reported a weak relationship between eyewitness confidence and accuracy, and (3) memory is sufficiently malleable that, no...

On P values and confidence intervals (why can't we P with more confidence?)

Why cryptography should not rely on physical attack complexity

Ever since the first side channel attacks and fault attacks on cryptographic devices were introduced in the mid-nineties, new possibilities of physical attacks have been consistently explored. The risk that these attacks pose is reduced by reacting to known attacks and by developing and implementing countermeasures against them. For physical attacks whose theory is known but which have not been...

Initial eyewitness confidence reliably predicts eyewitness identification accuracy.

Eyewitness memory is widely believed to be unreliable because (a) high-confidence eyewitness misidentifications played a role in over 70% of the now more than 300 DNA exonerations of wrongfully convicted men and women, (b) forensically relevant laboratory studies have often reported a weak relationship between eyewitness confidence and accuracy, and (c) memory is sufficiently malleable that, no...

Methodological Notes on the Accuracy-Confidence Relation in Eyewitness Identifications

The important question of whether confidence and accuracy are related in eyewitness identifications involves a number of methodological considerations peculiar to the eyewitness setting. Inconsistencies in the literature are attributed in part to these methodological factors. Distinctions between four types of identification error (i.e., false identification, identification of foil in perpetrat...