Psychologists have intensively studied the factors that make both eyewitnesses and victims more or less susceptible to memory distortion. But to date there has been no experimental evidence comparing ...

A review of wrongful convictions, many involving eyewitness testimony, has sparked some serious heart-searching as well as a slew of bills aimed at preventing faulty testimony behind them.

Episodic memory is the conscious recollection of events as they were previously experienced. Eyewitness testimony is primarily based on episodic memory and plays a critical role in criminal and ...

Psychologists have intensively studied the factors that make both eyewitnesses and victims more or less susceptible to memory distortion. But to ...

Myth 6: The prevalence of errors in eyewitness testimony means that we cannot depend on memory. Fact: We should not extrapolate from the special case of eyewitness testimony to characterize all of ...

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