Assertion: eyewitness's memory | /r/HasProperty | altered
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text: Misleading information offered by the investigators may attract more attention than the originally encoded information, so the witness' memory of the event is altered to include erroneous details suggested during the interview.
text: While some of the studies that have been conducted state that the memory of an eyewitness may be affected if the eyewitness was focusing on the weapon held by the perpetrator, there are other studies with conflicting conclusions.
text: Ideally, one could quickly sequester a witness from influences that might affect the accuracy of their story, whether other witnesses or media coverage of the event, and then get their story down before the passage of time increases the odds of the memory being altered — but that simply isn’t how things work in the real world.
text: Memories are likely to be altered when questions are worded differently or when inaccurate information is presented.