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verbal overshadowing and eyewitness identification  

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  • Verbal overshadowing (VO) refers to situations in which describing a nonverbal experience, such as the appearance of a face, impairs subsequent recognition. In the original demonstration of VO, participants viewed a video of a robbery with a salient perpetrator and were later asked to recognize the perpetrator in a photographic lineup, including seven similar distractors. [Source: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law; Verbal Overshadowing and Eyewitness Identification]

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