https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210215160436.htm

In a paper published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers -- from the University of California San Diego and Duke University in the United States and the University of Birmingham in the U.K. -- show for the first time that selecting fillers who match a basic description of the suspect but whose faces are less similar, rather than more, leads to better outcomes than traditional approaches in the field.

The counterintuitive technique improves eyewitness performance by about 10 percent.