Abducted Children: Conventional Photos Alone Don’t Aid The Search

People’s ability to recognise abducted children is impaired when they view a photo of a smiling, clean child, but come into contact with the same child whose appearance is very different because he or she is upset, crying, dishevelled or unkempt. This is the key finding of a study published today in Applied Cognitive Psychology.

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Filed under: Pediatrics on October 29th, 2008