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Person Description Interview  

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  • An investigative interview used to elicit a more complete description of a face from memory, particularly from eyewitnesses, using two instructions: description of the person globally and then recalling specific elements (general to local instruction), followed by a description of the face from the bottom to the top (bottom-to-top instruction).

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  • PDI

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Demarchi, S., & Py, J. (2009). A method to enhance person description : A field study. In R. Bull, T. Valentine, & T. Williamson (Eds.), Handbook of Psychology of Investigative Interviewing (pp. 241–256). Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell.

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Demarchi, S., Py, J., Groud-Than, S., Parain, T., & Brunel, M. (2013). Describing a face without overshadowing effect : Another benefice of the Person Description Interview. Psychologie Française, 58(2), 123–133. doi:10.1016/j.psfr.2013.01.002

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Dodson, C. S., Seale-Carlisle, T. M., Garrett, B. L., Kafadar, K., & Yaffe, J. (in press). Persistence of the verbal overshadowing and weapon-focus effects on lineup identification performance. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000195

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

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  • Frank Arnould

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