State v. Henderson and the New Model Jury Charges - New Jersey ...

OWN-RACE BIAS
Meissner & Brigham (2001) meta-analysis:
39 research articles
91 independent samples
5,000 witnesses/participants
Witnesses were 1.4 times more likely to correctly
identify an own-race face than an other-race faces.
A mistaken identification was 1.56 times more likely in
other-race than same-race conditions
Overall, participants were 2.2 times as likely to
accurately identify own-race faces as other-race faces
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