Adult Eyewitness Testimony: Current Trends and Developments

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

• ISBN13: 9780521432559
• ISBN10: 0521432553
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-03-25
• 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

Part I. Cognitive, Physical and Social Processes and Factors Influencing Eyewitness Recall and Identification: 1. Reports of suggested memories: do people truly believe them? Kenneth R. Weingardt, H. Kelly Toland, and Elizabeth F. Loftus

2. Memory source monitoring and eyewitness testimony D. Stephen Lindsay

3. Understanding bystander misidentifications: the role of familiarity and contest knowledge J. Don Read

4. Unconscious transference and lineup identification: toward a memory blending approach David F. Ross, Stephen J. Ceci, David Dunning, and Michael P. Toglia

5. Earwitness evidence: memory for a perpetrator's voice A. Daniel Yarmey

6. Whole body identification: its relevance to eyewitnesses Malcolm D. MacLeod, Jason N. Frowley, and John W. Shephard

7. Actual victims and witnesses to robbery and fraud: an archival analysis Patricia A. Tollestrup, John W. Turtle, and John C. Yuille

Part II. Lineup Construction and Collection of Testimony: 8. Conceptual, practical and empirical issues associated with eyewitness identification test media Brian L. Cutler, Garrett Berman, Steven Penrod, and Ronald P. Fisher

9. Biased lineups: where do they come from? R. C. L. Lindsay

10. Evaluating the fairness of lineups John C. Brigham, and Jeffrey E. Pfeifer

11. Recommendations for properly-conducted lineup identification tasks Gary L. Wells, Eric P. Seelau, Sheila M. Rydell, and C. A. Elizabeth Luus

12. Improving eyewitness memory with the cognitive interview Ronald P. Fisher, Michelle McCauley, and R. Edward Geiselman

Part III. Who to Believe? Distinguishing Accurate from Inaccurate Eyewitnesses: 13. Distinguishing accurate from inaccurate eyewitness identifications: a reality monitoring approach Lisa Beth Stern, and David Dunning

14. Decision-making times and eyewitness identification accuracy in simultaneous and sequential lineups Siegfried Ludwig Sporer

15. Individual differences in personality and eyewitness identification Harmon Hosch

16. Eyewitness identification confidence C. A. Elizabeth Luus, and Gary L. Wells

17. Expectations of eyewitness performance: jurors' verdicts do not follow from their beliefs R. C. L. Lindsay

18. The appraisal of eyewitness testimony Michael R. Leippe.