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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"Eyewitness"”.
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Juror Evaluation of Eyewitness Evidence
… due in part to mistaken identification of eyewitnesses. The vast majority (94%) of these cases came from jury trials. These statistics suggest jurors lack understanding of what affects eyewitness’ memories and decisions. The current study assessed general knowledge of eyewitness procedures …
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Negative emotion and eyewitness memory
… storage and retrieval of event-related memory. Eyewitness memory, therefore, cannot be adequately understood without an account of the memorial effects of negative emotion. On this point, however, there remains a considerable degree of inconsistency in both the methods and findings of existing …
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Eyewitness suggestibility across presentation modalities
Misleading post-event information--Cognitive processing differences.
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Eyewitness suggestibility across presentation modalities
Misleading post-event information--Cognitive processing differences.
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What do police officers know about eyewitness memory? A comparison of knowledge between eyewitness experts and police investigators
… other variables that can impact the accuracy of eyewitness memory. In the present study police investigators were given a questionnaire originally developed by Kassin, Tub, Hosch, and Memon (2001) for "experts" or psychologists, who were teachers and researchers in the area of eyewitness memory. …
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Individual Differences in Children's Eyewitness Memory Skills
… impact of individual differences on children's eyewitness memory skills. Preschool (mean age of 4 years 8 months) and elementary (mean age of 11 years and 3 months) aged school children played a 5 minute game of Simon Says with an unknown male confederate. The children's memories for the game …
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Extra-Legal Information Transfer During Eyewitness Identification
<p>Researchers recommend that eyewitness lineups be conducted by administrators who do not know which lineup member is the suspect (i.e., that lineups be administered in a double-blind manner). Research on the effects of administrator knowledge generally support the idea that single-blind lineups …
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The effects of positive emotions on eyewitness memory
… to explore the effects of positive emotions on eyewitness memory. Though little research has been done investigating this question, it has serious implications within the criminal justice system, towards our understanding of emotions, and in creating a fuller comprehension of how memory works. …
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Eyewitness testimony by adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Eyewitness testimony is central to the criminal justice system, and may include that given by individuals with ASD. Despite the memory difficulties that are experienced by people with ASD, sparse research to date has examined the reliability of their testimony. This thesis presents a series of …
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Individual differences and suggestibility of children's eyewitness memory reports
… of recent research in the area of children's eyewitness memory has been aimed at examining children's vulnerability to suggestion. Numerous experimental factors have been found to impact children's suggestibility including the use of leading questions. However, research in this area has yet to …
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False memories and false eyewitness identifications: are they related?
… 1995) and the unconscious transference eyewitness identification paradigm (Ross, Ceci, Dunning, & Toglia, 1994) represent two tasks in which memory errors occur. Numerous studies exist examining each of these, few if any exist that examine the relationship between false memories and …
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The effect of lineup size on eyewitness identification accuracy
Eyewitness identification via lineup procedures is an important and widely used source of evidence in criminal cases. However, the current scientific literature provides inconsistent guidance on a very basic question of lineup procedure: lineup size. Some of the ambiguity in the field may be due to …
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Race and ethnicity influences on mock-juror evaluations of eyewitness testimony.
… were the first to manipulate both defendant and eyewitness race/ethnicity to examine their influence on mock jurors' decisions in a criminal case. In Experiment 1, Black mock jurors rated the testimony of an eyewitness as more credible and more important to their decisions when the eyewitness and …
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The eyewitness in American specular narrative : empiricism, representation, and the gaze
… empiricism and examine the implications of the eyewitness perspective such narrative assumes. Based on the epistemological assumption that "to see is to know," specular narrative imagines an empirical access (via visual processes of the gaze) to a knowable reality, and uses the figure of the …
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Postevent information and the impairment of eyewitness memory : a methodological examination
… of applying itself to the legal question of eyewitness evidence, has recently come under severe criticism. McCloskey & Zaragoza (1985a, 1985b) provide evidence to suggest that the experimental design used by almost all relevant studies is seriously flawed, and that results which appear to …
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Absolute and Relative Judgments and the Relationship Between Eyewitness Accuracy and Confidence
Research in eyewitness identification has found that eyewitness confidence can be highly predictive of eyewitness accuracy if a set of pristine testing conditions are met. Fuzzy-trace theory (FTT), a dual-process theory of cognition and memory, predicts that the distinction between pristine and …
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Multiple independent lineups: A procedure for corroborating eyewitness identification evidence in children
Child eyewitnesses exhibit problematic choosing on police lineups at a higher rate than adults (Fitzgerald & Price, 2015), which is an issue as mistaken eyewitness testimony is a leading cause of wrongful convictions (National Registry of Exonerations, 2019). This study examined a novel eyewitness …
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Avatars in child investigative interviews: supporting disclosure and eyewitness memory through technology
… avatar technologies as a means of gathering eyewitness testimony.
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Gender-bias and its influence on the accuracy of eyewitness identification of perpetrators
<p>"Previous research has looked at how eyewitnesses can identify characteristically with victims of crimes, but few have looked at how eyewitnesses identify with the perpetrators in any capacity (Block, Greenberg, & Goodman, 2009). More specifically, few have looked at how gender-bias influences …
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The effect of stress on memory : eyewitness performance in juveniles and young adults
… investigate the relationship between stress and eyewitness memory in adolescents (Experiment 1) and young adults (Experiment 2). Psychosocial stress was induced using a public speaking task. As eyewitness outcome measures, participants were asked to provide a physical description and to make a …
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