Schacter Daniel L, Dawes Robyn, Jacoby Larry L, Kahneman Daniel, Lempert Richard, Roediger Henry L, Rosenthal Robert
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Law Hum Behav. 2008 Feb;32(1):3-5. doi: 10.1007/s10979-007-9093-9. Epub 2007 Jul 4.
This article considers methodological issues arising from recent efforts to provide field tests of eyewitness identification procedures. We focus in particular on a field study (Mecklenburg 2006) that examined the "double blind, sequential" technique, and consider the implications of an acknowledged methodological confound in the study. We explain why the confound has severe consequences for assessing the real-world implications of this study.