The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology: Volume II: Memory for People

ISBN-13: 9780367463052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 616 str.

R. C. L. Lindsay; David F. Ross; J. Don Read

Opis

The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology presents a survey of research and legal opinions from international experts on the rapidly expanding scientific literature addressing the accuracy and limitations of eyewitnesses as a source of evidence for th

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Part 1. Finding Suspects.  Person Descriptions as Eyewitness Evidence.  Mug Books: More than Just Large Photospreads.  Facial Composites: Forensic Utility and Psychological Research. Part 2. Identifying Suspects: System Variables.  Remembering Faces.  The Psychology of Speaker Identification and Earwitness Memory.  Show-up Identifications: Suggestive Technique or Reliable Method?  Lineup Construction and Lineup Fairness.  Radical Alternatives to Traditional Lineups.  A Role for Theory in Eyewitness Identification Research.  Applied Lineup Theory. Part 3. Identifying Suspects: Estimator Variables.  The Influence of Race on Eyewitness Memory.  Person Description and Identification by Child Witnesses.  Eyewitness Memory in Young and Older Adults.  Remembering and Identifying Menacing Perpetrators: Exposure to Violence and the Weapon Focus Effect.  The Effects of Delay on Eyewitness Identification Accuracy: Should we be Concerned?  Eyewitness Confidence and the Confidence-accuracy Relationship in Memory for People. Distinguishing Accurate Identifications from Erroneous Ones: Post-dictive Indicators of Eyewitness Accuracy. Part 4. Belief of Eyewitness Identification.  Has Eyewitness Research Penetrated the American Legal System?  Belief of Eyewitness Identification Evidence. Part 5. Applying Psychological Research to Legal Practice.  Generalizing Eyewitness Reliability Research.  Mistaken Identification: Erroneous Convictions? - Assessing and Improving Legal Safeguards.  Giving Away Psychology to Lawyers.

O autorze

R.C.L. Lindsay, David F. Ross, J. Don Read, Michael P. Toglia