Adult Eyewitness Testimony
Subtitle: Current Trends and Developments
Contributors: David Frank Ross (Editor); J. Don Read (Editor); Michael P. Toglia (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 25, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780521432559
Subjects: Cognition & cognitive psychology; Criminal investigation & detection; Forensic Psychology; Criminal Evidence And Analysis; Psychology; General; Civil Procedure; Law-Civil Procedure; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Evidence, Criminal; Eyewitness identification
First sentence: A true case, described using pseudonyms in Witness for the Defense (Loftus and Ketcham,1991), provides a powerful anecdote showing just how strongly witnesses can believe in their memories-even when their memories are false.