Eyewitness memory does not work like a video recorder. Eyewitnesses cannot simply flip a switch to quickly and accurately remember the things that they have seen or heard. There are many reasons why ...

In previous Forensic View posts, we've focused on the unreliability of eyewitness memory, and on the effects of extreme stress on human cognition. What happens when you put them together? It's hard to ...

It isn't news that eyewitness testimony is sometimes inaccurate. What might be news, however, is that significant research makes plain that it is often wrong, even when the eyewitness believes they ...

Eyewitness identification remains a pivotal yet complex facet of criminal investigations and legal proceedings. Research in this area spans from the cognitive processes underlying face recognition to ...

A common Psych101 exercise involves a rendition of pennies on a slide. Only one is the real penny; the others have various mistakes like the wrong wording or tweaks to Abe Lincoln profile that make it ...

An innovative research replication initiative has generated results that have important implications for eyewitness memory. The project confirms earlier findings that asking witnesses to provide a ...

A new study from British researchers has revealed that sleep does not improve memory in an eyewitness. The study titled, “The impact of sleep on eyewitness identifications,” was published in the ...

New University of Liverpool research has found that co-witnesses to a crime can contaminate each other's memory of who committed it, but that the likelihood of this contamination occurring depends ...

Two Kansas City pastors say new videos of the police shooting of Malcolm Johnson refute the official narrative, and when an eyewitness' memory is — or isn't — to be considered reliable. Segment, ...

The available real-world evidence suggests that, on an initial test, eyewitness memory is often reliable. Ironically, even the DNA exoneration cases—which generally involved nonpristine testing ...

The Open University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. University of Sussex provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. It is also estimated that over 70% of ...