A new report challenges the perception that eyewitness memory is inherently fallible, finding that eyewitness confidence can indicate the accuracy of identifications made under “pristine” conditions.
Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 18, Number 1) Read the Full Text (PDF & HTML) There has been a growing belief within the legal system that there is little to no relationship between the
Many individuals have been falsely accused of a crime based, at least in part, on confident eyewitness identifications, a fact that has bred distrust of eyewitness confidence in the US legal system. But a new