Dunning, D. (1989). Research on children's eyewitness testimony: Per- spectives on its past and future. In S. J. Ceci, D. F. Ross, & M. P. Toglia (Eds.), Perspectives on children's testimony (pp. 230-247). New York: Springer-Verlag....
The Reaffirming Eyewitness: An Examination of the Discontinuity of Research in Eyewitness Testimony and Mock-Juror Ratings of GuiltThis study examines one possible reason for the discontinuity found in the literature regarding jurors' ability to properly disregard the testimony of a discredited eyewitness...
PsychologistCarol Tavrisdiscusses the cost of similar biases in cognitive processing inMistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, Numerous studies of erroneous eyewitness testimony demonstrate that memory is constructed of fragmentary elements “stitched” together...
Participants were asked the following questions: Did you adopt any strategies during the task? (Participants circled a yes or no answer.); What strategies did you adopt when lying? What strategies did you adopt when telling the truth? What behaviours do you think are indicative of lying? What...
Knowledge application - use your knowledge to answer questions about the types of supporting sources for research Reading comprehension - ensure that you draw the most important information from the related scientific research lesson Interpreting information - verify that you can read information regardi...
Here is a sample of some of the questions and answers from those interviews. Interview of Mr. Douglas Wilkey Quaker Hill Schooland other schools in the district What did you wear? They wore knickers that went right under the knee and socks that pulled up and folded at the end. ...
Questions about Germany's role in the massacre of nearly one million Armenians from 1915-1916 linger because of Germany's close association with Turkey before and during the First World War. Two lines of thought persist about the nature of Germany's involvement: either Germany had nothing to ...
Responses to decision checklist questions can be quantified to indicate one offour action steps, according toDaniel Kahneman: Decide,based on inclusion of robustsafeguardsagainst bothconfirmation biasandoverconfidence bias, Reach out,suggesting the need for gathering additional perspectives, opinions, and pe...
In Experiment 2, subjects were 72 ordinary citizens who either had or had not read a magazine article about a mistakenly identified man. The former subjects were less likely to convict than the latter. These results raise questions about the extent to which current local or world events ...
Although research shows the accuracy of both adults and children can be affected by leading or suggestive questions, the ability to resist the influence of external suggestion increases with age. 49) Children may change their account of an event, not because their memory has altered but because ...