Catching the Bad Guy: Morphing Composite Faces Helps
Law and Human Behavior, Volume 31, Number 2 / April, 2007, Pages 193-207
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Lisa E. Hasel and Gary L. Wells
"Composite faces built by eyewitnesses commonly are poor likenesses of the target face. When there are multiple witnesses, however, an opportunity exists to morph the composites. Morphs were rated as more similar to the target face than were the mean ratings of the individual composites. However, as hypothesised, the morph also came to resemble non-target faces more than the individual composites did (a prototype effect)." [Sub required]