Eyewitness Testimony

Why read it

• You will stop taking a confident eyewitness as proof, and see why an honest memory can still be wrong
• You will know how stress and later events can change what someone remembers
• You will ask better questions about how something was seen, kept and recalled before you trust it

Who it is for

• Jurors, lawyers and police who rely on witness accounts
• Anyone sure of a memory that someone else disputes
• Managers who investigate incidents from what people recall

Contents

1. Eyewitness Testimony
2. Foreword
3. Preface
4. Eyewitness Testimony
5. 1 Mistaken Identification
6. 2 Impact of Eyewitness Testimony
7. 3 Perceiving Events
8. 4 Retaining Information in Memory
9. 5 Retrieving Information from Memory
10. 6 Theoretical Issues in the Study of Memory
11. 7 Recognizing People
12. 8 Individual Differences in Eyewitness Ability
13. 9 Common Beliefs about Eyewitness Accounts
14. 10 The Eyewitness and the Legal System
15. 11 An Actual Case of Murder: People v. Garcia
16. Appendix

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