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Summary Of Eyewitness Testimony
American cognitive psychologist
Fields; Cognitive psychology, Psychology and law Misinformation effect and eyewitness memory
“Eyewitness testimony” book explores in depth how eyewitnesses can in fact be highly unreliable and the psychology behind why.
Expert on human memory.
Loftus’ previous studies revolved around whether memories are necessarily accurate
Inspired by a real case
The study was conducted in 1974
“Aim of study; Test their hypothesis that the language used in eyewitness testimony can alter memory” (simplepsychology.org)
Main focus; How the wording of questions can influence (mis)leading information to the eyewitness testimonies
The case- A man was convicted of rape just because out of the options given he was the closest
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