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Eyewitness Confidence Can Predict Accuracy of Identifications, Researchers Find
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.
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The Law’s Emotion Problem
The New York Times: In the 1992 Supreme Court case Riggins v. Nevada, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy acknowledged — perhaps unwittingly — that our legal system relies on a particular theory of the emotions. The
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Eyewitness Confidence Can Predict Accuracy of Identifications, Researchers Find
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
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Justice Department Turns to Psychological Science to Improve Eyewitness Testimony
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is tapping into psychological science to develop new guidelines for eyewitness identification procedures.
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Justice Department Turns to Psychological Science to Improve Eyewitness Identifications
The US Department of Justice draws on psychological research to identify best practices in eyewitness identification procedures.
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Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences
Sentencing data shows that judges in the US tend to give defendants longer sentences the day after switching to daylight saving time compared with other days of the year.
