Book description
Every year hundreds of defendants are convicted on little more than the say-so of a fellow citizen. Although psychologists have suspected for decades that an eyewitness can be highly unreliable, new evidence leaves no doubt that juries vastly overestimate the credibility of eyewitness accounts. It is a problem that the…
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1 author picked Eyewitness Testimony as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Professor Elizabeth Loftus essentially launched the modern field of eyewitness studies with her experiments on the dynamics of human memory in the eyewitness context, and this book discusses her most important experiments, major studies which reinvigorated this important field.
She demonstrated that memory can be reconfigured in the presence of post-event information, to the degree that a given eyewitness memory may bear no resemblance to the actual events supposedly being remembered.
This is among the most important books in forensic cognitive science, the psychological basis of law enforcement, and the criminal justice system.
Loftus began the studies which culminated in…
From Matthew's list on he best books about cognitive science and the criminal justice system.
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