To address questions about human memory's dependence on the coincidental
environmental contexts in which events occur, we review studies of incidental environmental …

There is widespread agreement among researchers that the correlation between
identification accuracy and confidence in identification judgments is weak. For this reason …

Represents a scholarly and ambitious attempt to improve the quality of interviews received
by the courts and minimize the risks of miscarriages of justice, for victims and defendants …

Every year hundreds of defendants are convicted on little more than the say-so of a fellow
citizen. Although psychologists have suspected for decades that an eyewitness can be …

Investigation of child abuse is often hampered by doubts about the reliability of children as
only sources of information. Over the last decade, consensus has been reached about …

En el año 1876, Ezequías Marco César Lombroso Leví publicó El hombre delincuente, cuyo
contenido estaba basado en un largo periodo de investigación sobre las características …

There is increasing evidence that false eyewitness identification is the primary cause of the
conviction of innocent people. In 1996, the American Psychology/Law Society, Division 41 of …

This meta-analytic review examined 19 tests of the weapon focus effect—the hypothesis that
the presence of a weapon during commission of a crime will negatively affect an …

An investigator who plans to conduct an experiment with multiple independent variables
must decide whether to use a complete or reduced factorial design. This article advocates a …

A better understanding of eyewitness identification from lineups and photospreads has
emerged in the psychological literature over the last dozen years. The structural and …