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The Timing of Expert Testimony on Juror Assessments of Eyewitness Reliability

open access: yesApplied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 40, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT The average juror is unaware of the factors that affect eyewitness reliability. When experts educate jurors, they usually testify after an eyewitness has incriminated the defendant. We hypothesized that early presentation of expert testimony would improve juror sensitivity to eyewitness reliability.
Josh Mulingbayan, Ryan J. Fitzgerald
wiley   +1 more source

The Interactional Pathways of Mass Killings: Toward a Novel Understanding of Rampage School Shootings

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 253-282, May 2026.
Rampage school shootings, where students go to their own school to randomly kill classmates, teachers, friends, and strangers, are among the most drastic types of human behavior. While research increasingly points to interaction dynamics as being key for the emergence of crime and violence, scholars have not yet systematically studied interaction ...
Anne Nassauer
wiley   +1 more source

Perceived realism and the CSI-effect

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2017
Anecdotal claims from legal professionals suggest that jurors are increasingly expecting DNA evidence in criminal trials, due to the popularity of crime-drama television programs such as Crime Scene Investigation (CSI). This study extends research on the
Logan A. Ewanation   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Prohibition to Digitalisation: 100 Years of Cameras in the Courtroom

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 3, Page 406-438, May 2026.
This article traces the shifting relationship between the courts, the public, and the media in England and Wales from the 1925 prohibition on courtroom photography to the contemporary regime of livestreamed and recorded proceedings. It situates the introduction of the ban on courtroom images within the first administrative turn of the judiciary, when ...
Ozan Kamiloglu, Kanika Sharma
wiley   +1 more source

Stability of autobiographical memory in young people with intellectual disabilities

open access: yesAnuario de Psicología Jurídica, 2017
The present study aimed to analyze the stability of the memory of a stressful event (medical examination within a hospital setting) over time in young people (age range 12 to 21, Mage = 15.11 years old, SD = 3.047) with mild or moderate intellectual ...
Claudia Morales   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Face Recognition in Forensic Psychology: A Literature Review on Eyewitness Testimony Research [PDF]

open access: yesPsicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa
Eyewitnesses 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
doaj   +1 more source

Consequences of False Memories in Eyewitness Testimony: A Review and Implications for Chinese Legal Practice

open access: yesPsychological Research on Urban Society, 2018
False memories can result in severe legal consequences including the imprisonment of innocent people. False memory in eyewitnesses is the largest factor contributing to miscarriages of justice in the United States.
Jianqin Wang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predicting Accuracy in Eyewitness Testimonies With Memory Retrieval Effort and Confidence

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Evaluating eyewitness testimonies has proven a difficult task. Recent research, however, suggests that incorrect memories are more effortful to retrieve than correct memories, and confidence in a memory is based on retrieval effort. We aimed to replicate
Philip U. Gustafsson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Marriage among Muslims in rural areas in the second half of 19th century (based on materials of Krasnaya Kadka village metric books from the funds of the State Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan and the National Archive of the Republic of Bashkortostan)

open access: yesИсторическая этнология, 2018
This article is devoted to some aspects of marriage among Muslims of the Volga-Ural region in the late 19th – early 21st centuries. Traditionally, marriage has been studied based on the materials of ethnographic research, eyewitness testimony, and ...
Ramil A. Gaptrakhimov   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

CHAOS THEORY AND THE ROLE OF EXPERT ANALYSIS AS A PERIODIC ATTRACTOR DURING THE 2004 INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI [PDF]

open access: yesScience of Tsunami Hazards, 2013
The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami was epic in scale and scope and will go down as one of the largest natural disasters in human history. This paper presents an analysis of media coverage of the disaster and surveys of 206 local and international tourists in ...
Matthew O’Lemmon
doaj  

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