By shedding light on the many factors that can intervene and create inaccurate testimony, Elizabeth Loftus illustrates how memory can be radically altered by the way an eyewitness is questioned, and how new memories can be implanted and old ...
Eyewitness Testimony: Challenging Your Opponent's Witness
This book brings together an impressive group of researchers and practicing attorneys to provide current overviews and critiques of key topics in eyewitness testimony.
Understanding evidence is critical in a court of law – and it is just as important for critical thinking.
... studies illustrates how some of these factors determining memorability come together to promote and preserve memory of specific events: Rubin and Kozin (1984)47 asked a group of students to describe three of their clearest memories, ...
Investigates the factors that influence the accuracy of eyewitness testimony.
The Psychology of Eyewitness Testimony
Although, as these are based on memories that are not always reliable. Loftus recommends methods for gathering testimony that are less likely to distort memory and suggests experts on memory should be able to testify in court.
Any reader who is fascinated with the criminal justice system will love this work -- cheering for the innocent as well as those who catch the guilty. You cannot put this book down.
Barnes was the surprise witness who used the automatic teller machine at the Methodist College Branch of Branch Banking and Trust Company in Fayetteville at 8:59 A.M. on May 11, 1985—three minutes and thirtyfive seconds after the ...