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Person misidentification through visual information: Toward the psychology of person misidentification

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K18699
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Medium-sized Section 10:Psychology and related fields
Research InstitutionKyoto Women's University (2021)
Keio University (2018-2020)

Principal Investigator

Itoh Yuji  京都女子大学, 発達教育学部, 教授 (70151545)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 三浦 大志  杏林大学, 保健学部, 講師 (80726084)
Project Period (FY) 2018-06-29 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥6,370,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,470,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
Keywords人物誤同定 / 認知的失敗 / 人違い / 日誌法 / 実験室実験 / フィールド実験 / 親近性 / 類似性 / 既知人物
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The "person misidentification phenomenon," in which people mistakenly judge a person they encounter in their daily lives to be another known person, was examined through diary method questionnaires, field experiments, and laboratory experiments. The questionnaire surveys revealed the frequency and the situation of misidentifications in daily life, and the characteristics of the persons. In the field experiments, we set up a rendezvous scene and tried to have the subjects make misidentifications in everyday situations outside the laboratory, and showed that about 30% of the subjects actually made ones. In the laboratory experiments, an experimental paradigm was developed to artificially generate person misidentifications in the laboratory, and it was shown that increasing familiarity with the faces of unknown persons through subliminal mere exposure increased the frequency of person misidentifications.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

これまで心理学では、意図的、意識的に対象の人物に注意を向けて行う人物同定や誤同定についての研究は行われてきたが、われわれが日常経験するような人違いについてはほとんど研究されてこなかった。本研究は、日常的な人違いがどのような現象であるかの概略を示し、可能な研究方法の提案、問題の整理などを行うことができ、人違い研究が心理学の一領域として進められるべきであり、領域として成り立つことを示すことができた。研究の成果は、将来的には目撃供述の信頼性の検討や振り込め詐欺(オレオレ詐欺)の防止にも役立つ可能性があり、この点でも意義が認められる。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All 2021 2020 2019 2018

All Presentation (10 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results)

  • [Presentation] Misidentification of a person as a familiar person: Studies on hito-chigai experiences2021

    • Author(s)
      Itoh, Y., Shimane, D., & Miura, H.
    • Organizer
      The 32th International Congress of Psychology
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 「人違いの心理学」を目指して:質問紙調査・日誌法による検討2020

    • Author(s)
      伊東裕司
    • Organizer
      日本心理学会第84回大会
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 「人違いの心理学」を目指して:フィールド実験による検討2020

    • Author(s)
      三浦大志
    • Organizer
      日本心理学会第84回大会
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 「人違いの心理学」を目指して:人違いを引き起こす要因の実験的検討2020

    • Author(s)
      島根大輔
    • Organizer
      日本心理学会第84回大会
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Misidentification of a person as a familiar person: Is a testimony that an eyewitness saw a familiar person reliable?2019

    • Author(s)
      Itoh, Y., Shimane, D., and Miura, H.
    • Organizer
      The thirteenth biennial conference of Society for Applied Research on Memory and Cognition
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 目撃した未知顔への親近感の高さと人違いの生起確率の関係2019

    • Author(s)
      島根大輔・三浦大志・伊東裕司
    • Organizer
      日本心理学会第83回大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Person misidentification is associated with cognitive failures and expectations2019

    • Author(s)
      Miura, H., Shimane, D., and Itoh, Y.
    • Organizer
      Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Misidentification of a person as a familiar person: Is a testimony that an eyewitness saw a familiar person reliable?2019

    • Author(s)
      Itoh, Y., Shimane, D, & Miura, H.
    • Organizer
      13th Biannual Conference of Society for Applied Research in Memory and CognitionSociety for Applied Research in Memory and CognitionSo
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 個人特性および予期に着目した人違い現象の検討2018

    • Author(s)
      三浦大志・島根大輔・伊東裕司
    • Organizer
      日本認知心理学会第16回大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Misidentification of a person as a familiar person and reliability of eyewitness identification2018

    • Author(s)
      Itoh, Y., Shimane, D, & Miura, H.
    • Organizer
      38th Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law Annual Congress
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2018-07-25   Modified: 2023-01-30  

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