Eyewitness misidentifications have long been a source of wrongful convictions, casting doubt on the reliability of memory in the courtroom. But UC San Diego psychologist John Wixted says the story ...

We all know the scene from countless courtroom dramas: A witness points at the defendant and confidently declares to judge and jury: "That's the one, that's who did it!" But is it? Perhaps. If that ...

Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 explores the psychological factors causing frequent inaccuracies in eyewitness memory reports.

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 ...

Yet a major potential for error turns up in that space between the image and the report. Many visual details are lost relatively quickly from any given memory ...

Eyewitness memory remains a cornerstone of criminal investigations and courtroom decisions, yet it is inherently fallible. Human memory operates through encoding, storage and retrieval processes that ...

It isn't news that eyewitness testimony is sometimes inaccurate. What might be news, however, is that significant research makes plain that it is often wrong, even when the eyewitness believes they ...

Eyewitnesses can identify perpetrators more accurately when they are able to manipulate 3D images of suspects, according to a new study. A team of researchers in the University of Birmingham's School ...

Charles Don Flores on Texas Death Row in 2021. A California psychology professor says new research on memory suggests witness testimony casts doubt on the guilt of a Texas man on death row — long ...

Ervin Harris successfully challenged his 1975 conviction after a court found advances in eyewitness memory research could have changed the ...

Psychological scientists and criminologists say our system of jurisprudence needs a simple no-cost reform -- switch to testing eyewitnesses for their memory of suspects only once. We all know the ...