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Running head featural composites and lineups: "What big teeth you have" - Red Riding Hood and the face recognition failure : the effects of isolated featural and configural composite construction and recognition accuracy [PDF]
, 2012 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.When a crime is committed, law enforcement typically relies on the testimony of an eyewitness. However, eyewitness testimony is often susceptible to contamination. Eyewitnesses are usually required to
Kempen, Kate-Victoria
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El testimonio de Joaquina Grefa, una cautiva quichua entre los huaorani (Ecuador, 1945)
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2002 The Joaquina Grefa’s testimony, a Quichua girl kidnapped by Huaorani (Ecuador, 1945). In 1944, a group of Huaorani kidnapped a Quichua girl, who escaped a year later and narrated the story of her life among the Huaorani to an English missionary.
María Susana Cipolletti
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Neuroimaging and Eyewitness Testimony [PDF]
, 2014 This paper will explore how breakthroughs in neuroscience, specifically neuroimaging, can be used to validate eyewitness testimony. Though the use of direct evidence is decreasing, due to findings of numerous wrongful convictions that were based on ...
Gardner, Madysen
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, 1994 Adult Eyewitness Testimony: Current Trends and Developments provides an overview of empirical research on eyewitness testimony and identification accuracy, covering both theory and application.
Ross, David F., +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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Eyewitness Memory Research and Legal Practices: A Historical Perspective
Yaşam Becerileri Psikoloji Dergisi, 2018 The reliability of eyewitness memory is of great importance for justice system. Memory errors in eyewitness testimonials may lead to serious consequences such as the inability to find the real perpetrators as well as wrongful convictions due to ...
Pınar Kurdoglu Ersoy
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An Examination of Factors Affecting Eyewitness Examination in Greece
Social SciencesMethods examining eyewitness testimony and its identification of suspects have not received sufficient analysis internationally. In the face of growing empirical evidence of methodologic and judicial errors, Greece’s judicial process nonetheless ...
Elli I. Anitsi +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 A child who alleges that they have been the victim of a crime will be interviewed by police officers. During a police interview it is important that the interviewer obtains the most accurate testimony possible from the child.
Marilena eKyriakidou +2 more
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Eyewitness Memory in Face-to-Face and Immersive Avatar-to-Avatar Contexts
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Technological advances offer possibilities for innovation in the way eyewitness testimony is elicited. Typically, this occurs face-to-face. We investigated whether a virtual environment, where interviewer and eyewitness communicate as avatars, might ...
Donna A. Taylor, Coral J. Dando
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Legal Professionals Use an Implicit Checklist to Assess Expert Witness Credibility
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In a court of law, some forms of evidence are too technical to interpret without the help of an expert witness. However, expert testimony sometimes leads to wrongful conviction. We used an online survey to quantitatively compare how legal professionals (n = 122) and lay people (n = 109) understood what makes an expert witness credible.
Mahensingh Deonaran +2 more
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