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  • Forensic Science
  • Human Memory

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  • Public participation aids missing person investigations.
  • Contextual information may influence person memory and identification.
  • Previous research suggests potential benefits of contextual cues in encoding.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effect of contextual information on missing person poster encoding and subsequent identification.
  • To test hypotheses regarding context effects on prospective person memory and discriminability.

Main Methods:

  • 396 participants encoded posters with target faces and varying contextual information (relevant, irrelevant, none).
  • Participants viewed videos with target or plausible non-target individuals in a controlled encounter.
  • A novel experimental paradigm ensured consistent encounter conditions.

Main Results:

  • Associating target faces with contextual information did not significantly improve discrimination between targets and non-targets.
  • Context manipulation had no significant effect on response bias.
  • No significant difference in sighting discriminability was observed across context conditions.

Conclusions:

  • Contextual information on missing person posters does not appear to enhance identification accuracy in this paradigm.
  • The effectiveness of context may depend on the type of information, encounter scenario, and recognition task.
  • Findings challenge previous assumptions about the generalizability of context effects in person memory.