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Stress
• Identification accuracy decreases the more
stressful the event
• Military Survival Training Study
– Food and sleep deprivation for 48 hours
– High versus low stress interrogations
– 24 hrs later shown lineups of interrogators (or
blank)
– Simultaneous versus sequential (photo and live)
– High stress performed much more poorly
--- Morgan, et al., “Accuracy of Eyewitness Memory for Persons Encountered During
Exposure to Extremely Highly Intense Stress,” 27 INT’L J. OF LAW & PSYCHIATRY
265 (2004)