Adult Eyewitness Testimony: Current Trends and Developments

by Edited by David Frank Ross , J. Don Read , Michael P. Toglia

• ISBN13: 9780521033459
• ISBN10: 0521033454
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-12
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Adult Eyewitness Testimony: Current Trends and Developments provides an overview of empirical research on eyewitness testimony and identification accuracy, covering both theory and application. The volume is organized to address three important issues. First, what are the cognitive, social and physical factors that influence the accuracy of eyewitness reports? Second, how should lineups be constructed and verbal testimony be taken to improve the chances of obtaining accurate information? And third, whose testimony should be believed? Are there differences between accurate and inaccurate witnesses, and can jurors make such a distinction? Adult Eyewitness Testimony: Current Trends and Developments is crucial reading for memory researchers, as well as police officers, judges, lawyers and other members of the judicial system.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Preface

Cognitive, Physical and Social Processes and Factors Influencing Eyewitness Recall and Identification

Reports of suggested memories: do people truly believe them?

Memory source monitoring and eyewitness testimony

Understanding bystander misidentifications: the role of familiarity and contextual knowledge

Unconscious transference and lineup identification: toward a memory blending approach

Earwitness evidence: memory for a perpetrator's voice

Whole body information: its relevance to eyewitnesses

Actual victims and witnesses to robbery and fraud: an archival analysis

Lineup Construction and Collection of Testimony

Conceptual, practical and empirical issues associated with eyewitness identification test media

Biased lineups: where do they come from?

Evaluating the fairness of lineups

Recommendations for properly conducted lineup identification tasks

Improving eyewitness memory with the cognitive interview

Who to Believe? Distinguishing Accurate from Inaccurate Eyewitnesses

Distinguishing accurate from inaccurate eyewitness identifications: a reality monitoring approach Lisa

Decision times and eyewitness identification accuracy in simultaneous and sequential lineups Siegfried

Individual differences in personality and eyewitness identification

Eyewitness identification confidence

Expectations of eyewitness performance: jurors' verdicts do not follow from their beliefs

The appraisal of eyewitness testimony

Indexes

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