Field-simulation studies show high confidence can lead to false-identifications in witness performance, indicating complexity in memory recall.
which clearly illustrate a situation where a positive correlation between confidence and accuracy exists, but at the same time, nearly half of all false-identifications are made with 90-100% confidence.
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