Eyewitness Testimony

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth F. Loftus is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. Klappentext By shedding light on the many factors that can intervene and create inaccurate testimony! Elizabeth Loftus illustrates how memory can be radically altered by the way an eyewitness is questioned! and how new memories can be implanted and old ones changed in subtle ways. Zusammenfassung By shedding light on the many factors that can intervene and create inaccurate testimony! Elizabeth Loftus illustrates how memory can be radically altered by the way an eyewitness is questioned! and how new memories can be implanted and old ones changed in subtle ways. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Mistaken Identification 2. Impact of Eyewitness Testimony 3. Perceiving Events 4. Retaining Information in Memory 5. Retrieving Information from Memory 6. Theoretical Issues in the Study of Memory 7. Recognizing People 8. Individual Differences in Eyewitness Ability 9. Common Beliefs about Eyewitness Accounts 10. The Eyewitness and the Legal System 11. An Actual Case of Murder: People v. Garcia Appendix References Index

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth F Loftus, Elizabeth F. Loftus
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1996
• EAN: 9780674287778
• ISBN: 978-0-674-28777-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 236 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; USA, memory, Law, LAW / Courts, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, LAW / Trial Practice, United States of America, USA, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures