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Forensic Psychology

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Eyewitness Psychology

6 articles

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How people perceive, store, and recall memories of events they have witnessed, and why memory is reconstructive rather than exact.

8 min

How face recognition works, and why witnesses are often less reliable at identifying strangers than they believe.

10 min

How memories are formed, stored, and rebuilt each time they are recalled, rather than replayed exactly as they happened.

6 min

Factors such as stress, attention, and time that shape how well a witness remembers an event.

6 min

How leading questions and information encountered after an event can distort or even create memories that never happened.

6 min

How police lineups and identification procedures are designed, and what makes them more or less reliable.

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4 min

How knowledge about thoughts, emotions, and behavior is applied across investigations, courts, and correctional care.