News tagged with eyewitness
Influencing others through gestures: misleading eyewitnesses
Gestures made during interviews can influence or even misinform eyewitnesses. In addition, eyewitnesses are unlikely to recall the influential gestures being shown to them, new research from the University of Hertfordshire ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Author Grisham laments bad courtroom science
Best-selling crime author John Grisham told lawmakers that faulty science is all over the US justice system, and urged nationwide improvements to forensic techniques.
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Eyewitness memory susceptible to misinformation after testing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, the Orlando Sentinel newspaper reported that Palm Beach County, Fla., law enforcement is working to develop a consistent set of rules for eyewitnesses, hoping it will help prevent ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 08, 2011 |
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Eye-witness identification may be attributed to bias
For the first time, eye-witness identifications are to be studied to determine if people avoid pointing the finger at someone they like in a police line-up.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 13, 2010 |
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Fake video dramatically alters eyewitness accounts
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the have found that fake video evidence can dramatically alter people's perceptions of events, even convincing them to testify as an eyewitness to an event that never happened.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Witness for the prosecution? The effect of confessions on eyewitness testimony
What is it with false confession? It seems crazy on the face of it, to take the blame for a crime you didn't commit. Yet experts have found that while some innocent confessors are mentally disturbed attention seekers, or ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 28, 2009 |
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