Science has prevailed over injustice in the state of New Jersey, where all jurors will soon learn about memory's unreliability and the limits of eyewitness testimony. According to instructions issued ...

Picture this: You are walking home alone. It’s dark, and you feel like someone is watching you. Suddenly someone comes around the corner and threatens you, taking your things. It all happens in a ...

Judges across Minnesota will have access to training about the science behind eyewitness identification by the end of this year as the reliability of the practice remains a flash point of nationwide ...

As we move through the world, looking at objects and people, we generally trust that we are accurately perceiving what’s out there. But research has shown that part of what we see sometimes originates ...

Many individuals have been falsely accused of a crime based, at least in part, on confident eyewitness identifications, a fact that has bred distrust of eyewitness confidence in the US legal system.

Reviewed Work: How Can So Many Be Wrong? Making the Due Process Case for an Eyewitness Expert by Margaret A. Hagen, Sou Hee (Sophie) Yang Østby, H., & Østby, Y. (2018). Adventures in memory. The ...

MOBILE, Alabama – Prosecutors used an eyewitness and science this afternoon to try to convince jurors that Whistler resident Corey Henderson fired into a Lincoln Town Car last year, killing two people ...

"The Forensic View," my blog on Psychology Today, obviously deals mainly with forensic issues. These include the complex processes of eyewitness cognition. However, regular readers of these posts will ...

Interesting details on how to properly ascertain the state of the witness and the video taping with a blind test is very intriguing. Sadly none of this matters. Police departments across American are ...

THE “SATANIC PANIC” that swept through America in the 1980s and 1990s held that thousands of ordinary people up and down the country were secretly members of devil-worshipping cults which were abusing ...