Contextual information renders experts vulnerable to making erroneous identifications

Contextual information renders experts vulnerable to making erroneous identifications. Dror, I., Charlton, D., & Ailsa E. Péron Forensic Science International, October, 2005.

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We investigated whether experts can objectively focus on feature information in ﬁngerprints without being misled byextraneous information, such as context. We took ﬁngerprints that have previously been examined and assessed by latent printexperts to make positive identiﬁcation of suspects. Then we presented these same ﬁngerprints again, to the same experts, butgave a contextthat suggested that they were a no-match, and hence the suspects could not be identiﬁed. Within this new context,most of the ﬁngerprint experts made different judgements, thus contradicting their own previous identiﬁcation decisions.Cognitive aspects involved in biometric identiﬁcation can explain why experts arevulnerable to make erroneous identiﬁcations.

@article{dror_contextual_2005,
	title = {Contextual information renders experts vulnerable to making erroneous identifications},
	volume = {156 (2006) 74–78},
	url = {https://www.academia.edu/15432375/Contextual_information_renders_experts_vulnerable_to_making_erroneous_identifications},
	abstract = {We investigated whether experts can objectively focus on feature information in ﬁngerprints without being misled byextraneous information, such as context. We took ﬁngerprints that have previously been examined and assessed by latent printexperts to make positive identiﬁcation of suspects. Then we presented these same ﬁngerprints again, to the same experts, butgave a contextthat suggested that they were a no-match, and hence the suspects could not be identiﬁed. Within this new context,most of the ﬁngerprint experts made different judgements, thus contradicting their own previous identiﬁcation decisions.Cognitive aspects involved in biometric identiﬁcation can explain why experts arevulnerable to make erroneous identiﬁcations.},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2021-07-18},
	journal = {Forensic Science International},
	author = {Dror, Itiel and Charlton, David and {Ailsa E. Péron}},
	month = oct,
	year = {2005},
	keywords = {forensische Beweisführung, kognitive Verzerrungen},
}

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