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Time to exonerate eyewitness memory

Forensic Science International, 2018
Understandably enough, most people are under the impression that eyewitness memory is unreliable. For example, research shows that memory is malleable, so much so that people can come to confidently remember traumatic events that never actually happened. In addition, eyewitness misidentifications made with high confidence in a court of law are known to
John T Wixted
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Rethinking the Reliability of Eyewitness Memory

Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2018
Although certain pockets within the broad field of academic psychology have come to appreciate that eyewitness memory is more reliable than was once believed, the prevailing view, by far, is that eyewitness memory is unreliable—a blanket assessment that increasingly pervades the legal system.
John T Wixted, Laura Mickes, Ronald P Fisher   +2 more
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Arousal and Eyewitness Memory

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1984
Several experiments have demonstrated that violence adversely affects the accuracy of eyewitnesses' memory ( 1, 2, 3 ) , but it is unclear why. One explanation is in terms of the effects of violence on the witnesses' level of arousal (1) . The present study tested the hypothesis that if violence raised arousal sufficiently to interfere with perception ...
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Knowledge of eyewitness memory

Australian Psychologist, 1989
Abstract A questionnaire was administered to introductory psychology, advanced psychology, and advanced law students to assess their knowledge of eyewitness memory. The data were obtained in a way that allowed a comparison with similar research in the U.S.A. and the U.K.
Kevin M. McConkey, Suzanne M. Roche
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Eyewitness Memory in Context: Toward a Taxonomy of Eyewitness Error

Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 2008
Although eyewitness memory and identification have captured substantial research interest in the past decades, an understanding of the types and prevalence of errors typically made by eyewitnesses is lacking. The purpose of the present research was to begin the development of a taxonomy of eyewitness error, employing standardized stimuli and ...
Matthew J. Sharps, Jessica Janigian, Adam B. Hess, Bill Hayward   +3 more
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Children’s eyewitness memory for a repeated event

Child Abuse & Neglect, 1999
This study examined a significant issue for chronic sexual abuse investigations: Children's eyewitness testimony about repeated events. The few previous studies focused on preschoolers and none used the present methodology of presenting repeated events differing slightly in their details, as would happen in chronic abuse.One group of 6- to 7-year-olds ...
S, McNichol, R, Shute, A, Tucker
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Hypnosis and distortions in eyewitness memory

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 1979
Abstract An experiment was conducted to determine whether eyewitnesses questioned under hypnosis are more likely to answer leading questions incorrectly than eyewitnesses questioned in a normal waking state. Ss viewed a videotape-recording depicting a car-bicycle accident and were questioned about the details of the accident. Half of Ss were questioned
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Children as eyewitnesses memory, suggestibility, and credibility

Australian Psychologist, 1991
Children are often legally competent to give eyewitness testimony. In this article, we outline the psycho‐legal framework in which their evidence can be utilised. We examine issues in memory recall and recognition and consider the effects of leading questions on children's testimony together with the conditions under which their answers gain ...
Brooks, Keith, Siegal, Michael
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Eyewitness Memory

Abstract In some respects, the story of eyewitness memory has remained unchanged for decades. For example, because memory is malleable, eyewitness memory evidence (like all types of forensic evidence) can be contaminated, and the legal system’s failure to appreciate that fact has led to many wrongful convictions.
Mickes, Laura, Wixted, John T
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Role of Environmental Context in Eyewitness Memory

The American Journal of Psychology, 1991
We investigated whether varying the environmental context will affect the magnitude of retroactive interference produced by misleading postevent information in an eyewitness memory paradigm. Previous eyewitness memory studies have typically presented the original and misleading information in the same environmental context.
M A, Bonto, D G, Payne
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