Children Make Better Eyewitnesses than Adults in Certain Circumstances
The lack of knowledge in children might guard them from making spontaneous memory errors or going along with suggestions… More
Eyewitness Testimony
New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research articles exploring the role of crowd formation in online ratings and how the composition of police lineups influences eyewitness identification… More
Myth: Eyewitness Testimony is the Best Kind of Evidence
Activities in this unit reveal how eyewitness testimony is subject to unconscious memory distortions and biases even among the most confident of witnesses. … More
Injecting Science Into Police Lineups
Telling participants the research hypothesis halfway through an experiment is such an obvious error that scientists often go to considerable… More
How Our Ears Inform Our Eyes
Eyewitness identification is an important part of criminal investigations, especially in circumstances where physical evidence is lacking… More
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… More