Dentro de las investigaciones sobre psicología del testimonio destaca, por el volumen de trabajos, el área de la identificación de personas. En este artículo se pretende dar una visión global de los diferentes procedimientos de identificarón, aportando datos para juzgar su utilidad cuando son empleados por testigos para reconocer o recordar a una persona. Se sugiere que los errores de los testigos pueden ser interpretados al entender el funcionamiento de la memoria más como reconstrucción que como reproducción de sucesos, sugiriéndose como más conveniente para la interpretarán de los datos actuales la teoría de conocimiento social de Nisbett y Ross (1980). Se aporta, también, una extensa bibliografía sobre este tema.
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