Tania Wittwer

Université Toulouse II - Jean Jaurès | UTM · Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie (CLLE-LCT)

Identifying a suspect is critical for successful criminal investigations. Research focused on two decision processes during lineup identification, namely ‘automatic recognition’ and ‘elimination’ strategy, and their relation to identification accuracy. In this article, we report two experiments conducted in France and South Africa, which further ex...

The own-group bias in face recognition (OGB) is the greater facility to distinguish and recognize people from one's own group at the expense of people from other-groups. The existence of the OGB has been studied for many years, however, very little research focuses on finding a way to decrease or eliminate it, through training. Reporting five studi...

The own-group recognition bias (OGB) might be explained by the usage of different face processing strategies for own and other-group faces. Although featural processing appears in general to impair face recognition ability when compared to configural processing (itself perhaps a function of acquired expertise), recent research has suggested that th...

Background Voters overestimate probabilities of success of their preferred candidate. We suggest that this desirability bias vary in magnitude over time. Like illusory control of gamblers, the more time voters have to elaborate on the accuracy of their choice, the more they would overestimate the score of their candidate. Methods Two experimental...