Essentials of
Human Memory Eyewitness Memory: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives Memory and Emotion Available for reading online.
Not exact matches
Research by psychologists at Florida Atlantic University gives new meaning to the notion of «guilt by association» and aims to test how
memory in
humans as well as police use of mugshots and subtle innuendo can contaminate
eyewitness testimonies.
Several studies have been conducted on
human memory and on the propensity for
eyewitnesses to remember events and details that did not occur.
Shaw and Porter's study also provides further evidence of the inaccuracy and malleability of
human memory, evidence that is already compelling enough to have persuaded the state supreme courts of New Jersey and Massachusetts to mandate that judges instruct juries that
eyewitness testimony is inherently unreliable.