Although the phrase "they all look alike to me" is widely known and used as a joke

(Goldstein & Chance, 1985) the implications that the phrase yields may not be as widely

understood as they should be. In the criminal justice system, eyewitness identifications can play a

major role in the decisions made by jurors even though it has been shown that jurors have little

awareness of factors that affect the reliability of eyewitness accounts (Cutler, Penrod, & Dexter,

1990). One such factor is identifications made by people identifying someone of a different race,

(when describing race as Caucasian, of African descent, of Asian descent, or Latino),

which can be referred to as other-race identification or other-race recognition (Lavrakas, Buri, &

Mayzner, 1976). If the phrase "they all look alike to me", which states that people of another

group appear homogenous, is true for most people then it is possible that other-race

identifications should......

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Title: Eye Witness Identification
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