Sentences with phrase «contaminate eyewitness testimonies»
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.
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«There are a number of ways that eyewitness testimony can be contaminated with misleading information and that's why you have to treat memory like other forms of forensic evidence,» said Alan Kersten, Ph.D., co-author of the study and an associate professor of psychology in FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science.