During the summer of 2017 the visitors of Heureka could participate in an important research project and act as eyewitnesses. The legal psych research group at Åbo Akademi Unviersity is continuing their research about eyewitnesses inside the science park on Thurday-Sunday during 26.10–23.12.2018

The research project is funded by the Academy of Finland (1.9.2016-31.8.2019). The research team consists of Docent Julia Korkman (Åbo Akademi University, principal investigator), Professor Pekka Santtila (New York University, Shanghai), PsD Jan Antfolk (Åbo Akademi University), Professor James Lampinen (Arkansas Unviersity) and doctoral student Thomas Nyman (Åbo Akademi).

– The results from our experiment at Heureka in 2017 showed that an increase in distance had a drastic negative impact on correct identifications. This year we expect that the combination of different distances, lighting conditions and masked faces will give us a more nuanced view of how different external factors affect mistakes made in identifications, says Thomas Nyman, doctoral student in psychology at Åbo Akademi University.

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