An Examination of the Causes and Solutions to Eyewitness Error
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2014 Eyewitness error is one of the leading causes of wrongful convictions. In fact, the American Psychological Association estimates that one in three eyewitnesses make an erroneous identification.
Richard Allen Wise +3 more
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Face Recognition in Forensic Psychology: A Literature Review on Eyewitness Testimony Research [PDF]
Psicologia: Teoria e PesquisaEyewitnesses play a crucial role in the criminal justice system, providing crucial information during investigations and potentially assisting in the identification of suspects.
Renan Benigno Saraiva
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Perceptual Load Affects Eyewitness Accuracy & Susceptibility to Leading Questions
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Load Theory (Lavie, 1995; 2005) states that the level of perceptual load in a task (i.e. the amount of information involved in processing task-relevant stimuli) determines the efficiency of selective attention.
Gillian Murphy, Ciara Mary Greene
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The Effectiveness of Different Eyewitness Interview Tools in Memory Consolidation for Long-term Access [PDF]
پژوهشهای کاربردی روانشناختی, 2022 This study examines the effectiveness of different interviewing tools in consolidating eyewitness memory. This applied research used the post-test with control group design.
Ahmad Shahvaroughi +5 more
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Perpetrator pose reinstatement during a lineup test increases discrimination accuracy
Scientific Reports, 2021 We examined how encoding view influences the information that is stored in and retrieved from memory during an eyewitness identification task. Participants watched a mock crime and we varied the angle from which they viewed the perpetrator. In Experiment
Melissa F. Colloff +8 more
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The influence of the period of retention on the reliability of episodic memory in the context of testimony [PDF]
NBP: Nauka, bezbednost, policija, 2021 The paper presents a study that aimed to examine the reliability of episodic memory by varying the retention time from the moment of initial observation of two incidents to the moment of communicating what was actually remembered.
Baić Valentina +2 more
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Children’s Memory and Event Reports: The Current State of Knowledge and Best Practice
Journal of Forensic Social Work, 2013 Decades of research on children’s eyewitness reports highlight a multitude of influences on the accuracy of children’s memory. Given the significance of children’s eyewitness testimony in criminal and social service investigations of maltreatment, as ...
Lindsay Malloy +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Considerable evidence has shown that repeating the same misinformation increases its influence (i.e., repetition effects). However, very little research has examined whether having multiple witnesses present misinformation relative to one witness (i.e ...
Rachel O’Donnell +3 more
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Examining Confidence Accuracy, Observation Skills, and the Dunning Kruger Effect
Journal of Innovation in Polytechnic EducationUsing a quantitative approach, this study examines the confidence accuracy relationship of eyewitness memory and observation skills and explores the relationship between self-perception and accuracy (The Dunning Kruger Effect).
Megan Sheridan +2 more
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Consistency across repeated eyewitness interviews: contrasting police detectives' beliefs with actual eyewitness performance. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 In the legal system, inconsistencies in eyewitness accounts are often used to discredit witnesses' credibility. This is at odds with research findings showing that witnesses frequently report reminiscent details (details previously unrecalled) at an ...
Alana C Krix +3 more
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