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Logic and Research Versus Intuition and Past Practice as Guides to Gathering and Evaluating Eyewitness EvidenceRyerson University, jturtle{at}psych.ryerson.ca
Ryerson University Psychologists have conducted extensive research and devoted substantial thought to the memory, cognition, decision-making, logic, and human interaction components of eyewitness evidence. It is fortunate that much of that work has been formally recognized by law enforcement and the legal community and used as the basis for procedure and policy changes with regard to how eyewitness evidence is collected and evaluated. The authors discuss reasons that some segments of law enforcement, the legal community, and the public resist these research findings (e.g., by seeing psychology's role as a way to discredit eyewitness evidence or being committed to established procedures that have no empirical support). The authors also address gaps between these common misconceptions and what the psychology research perspective has to offer, in an effort to gain even more support for research- and logic-based recommendations concerning eyewitness evidence.
Key Words: eyewitness evidence • intuitive beliefs about memory • police investigation procedures
Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 35, No. 10,
1241-1256 (2008) This article has been cited by other articles:
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