When a court case hinges on the memories of victims or eyewitnesses, expert witnesses are sometimes called to explain the ...

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.

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

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 ...

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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