Indirect testing of eyewitness memory: The (non)effect of misinformation
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Misinformation Effects and the Suggestibility of Eyewitness Memory
Social scientists and legal practitioners have long suspected that suggestive forensic interview practices are a major cause of inaccuracies in eyewitness testimony. However, it wasn’t until Elizabeth Loftus published a highly influential series of studies on eyewitness suggestibility in the 1970s that a systematic body of scientific literature on this topic started to emerge. Since then, hundr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0090-5054
DOI: 10.3758/bf03333936