When someone retrieves a memory, they “aren't playing a recording back,” explains Elizabeth Loftus, a psychology professor at the University of California, Irvine. Rather “we are constructing” that ...

Eyewitness memory is not entirely reliable. This unreliability can derive from inherent limitations in the perception of criminal acts (including relative darkness, brevity of exposure, and occlusion ...

In previous posts on this page and elsewhere (e.g., Sharps, 2022, 2024), we have seen that eyewitness memories of crimes and suspects can be altered after the fact as time goes by and as witnesses ...

Eyewitness identification remains a pivotal yet complex facet of criminal investigations and legal proceedings. Research in this area spans from the cognitive processes underlying face recognition to ...

For those concerned about ensuring accurate eyewitness testimony and avoiding wrongful convictions based on sincere but mistaken evidence, one can paraphrase Charles Dickens in describing the current ...