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A descriptive study on misidentifications of a person as a familiar person in an everyday situation
The purpose of this study is to show the characteristics of person misidentifications, that is, experiences in which persons are misidentified as known persons. A total of 121 participants were asked how many times they misidentified persons in the last year and details of a recent person misidentif...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10220049/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37237029 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35094-8 |
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description | The purpose of this study is to show the characteristics of person misidentifications, that is, experiences in which persons are misidentified as known persons. A total of 121 participants were asked how many times they misidentified persons in the last year and details of a recent person misidentification were recorded through a traditional questionnaire. Additionally, they answered questions in a diary method questionnaire, about the details of person misidentification each time they experienced it, during the two-week survey period. The questionnaires revealed that the participants misidentified both known and unknown persons as familiar persons approximately six (traditional questionnaire) or 19 (diary method) times a year on average, regardless of whether they expected the persons to be there. They were more likely to misidentify a person as a familiar than as a less familiar person. It was also shown that the similarity of the faces of the person actually seen and the person they were mistaken for was not as high as the similarities of build and clothing. This study is expected to provide suggestions for models of person identification and enhance the research on errors. |
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spelling | pubmed-102200492023-05-28 A descriptive study on misidentifications of a person as a familiar person in an everyday situation Itoh, Yuji Miura, Hiroshi Shimane, Daisuke Sci Rep Article The purpose of this study is to show the characteristics of person misidentifications, that is, experiences in which persons are misidentified as known persons. A total of 121 participants were asked how many times they misidentified persons in the last year and details of a recent person misidentification were recorded through a traditional questionnaire. Additionally, they answered questions in a diary method questionnaire, about the details of person misidentification each time they experienced it, during the two-week survey period. The questionnaires revealed that the participants misidentified both known and unknown persons as familiar persons approximately six (traditional questionnaire) or 19 (diary method) times a year on average, regardless of whether they expected the persons to be there. They were more likely to misidentify a person as a familiar than as a less familiar person. It was also shown that the similarity of the faces of the person actually seen and the person they were mistaken for was not as high as the similarities of build and clothing. This study is expected to provide suggestions for models of person identification and enhance the research on errors. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10220049/ /pubmed/37237029 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35094-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Itoh, Yuji Miura, Hiroshi Shimane, Daisuke A descriptive study on misidentifications of a person as a familiar person in an everyday situation |
title | A descriptive study on misidentifications of a person as a familiar person in an everyday situation |
title_full | A descriptive study on misidentifications of a person as a familiar person in an everyday situation |
title_fullStr | A descriptive study on misidentifications of a person as a familiar person in an everyday situation |
title_full_unstemmed | A descriptive study on misidentifications of a person as a familiar person in an everyday situation |
title_short | A descriptive study on misidentifications of a person as a familiar person in an everyday situation |
title_sort | descriptive study on misidentifications of a person as a familiar person in an everyday situation |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10220049/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37237029 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35094-8 |
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