Adult Eyewitness Testimony: Current Trends and Developments

✍ Scribed by David Frank Ross (editor), J. Don Read (editor), Michael P. Toglia (editor)

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 449
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Adult Eyewitness Testimony provides an overview of current empirical research on eyewitness testimony and identification accuracy, covering both theory and application. The volume is organized to address three important issues: First, what are the cognitive, social, and physical factors that influence the accuracy of eyewitness reports? Second, how should lineups be constructed and verbal testimony be taken to improve the chances of obtaining accurate information? And third, whose testimony should be believed? Are there differences between accurate and inaccurate witnesses, and can jurors make such a distinction? Adult Eyewitness Testimony is crucial reading for memory researchers, as well as police officers, judges, lawyers, and other members of the judicial system. It will also be of interest to advanced undergraduates and graduate-level courses in applied social or cognitive psychology, criminal justice and forensics.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
List of contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Part I - Cognitive, physical and social processes and factors influencing eyewitness recall and identification......Page 16
1 - Reports of suggested memories: Do people truly believe them?......Page 18
2 - Memory source monitoring and eyewitness testimony......Page 42
3 - Understanding bystander misidentifications: The role of familiarity and contextual knowledge......Page 71
4 - Unconscious transference and lineup identification: Toward a memory blending approach......Page 95
5 - Earwitness evidence: Memory for a perpetrator's voice......Page 116
6 - Whole body information: Its relevance to eyewitnesses......Page 140
7 - Actual victims and witnesses to robbery and fraud: An archival analysis......Page 159
Part II - Lineup construction and collection of testimony......Page 176
8 - Conceptual, practical, and empirical issues associated with eyewitness identification test media......Page 178
9 - Biased lineups: Where do they come from?......Page 197
10 - Evaluating the fairness of lineups......Page 216
11 - Recommendations for properly conducted lineup identification tasks......Page 238
12 - Improving eyewitness testimony with the Cognitive Interview......Page 260
Part III - Whom to believe? Distinguishing accurate from inaccurate eyewitnesses......Page 286
13 - Distinguishing accurate from inaccurate eyewitness identifications: A reality monitoring approach......Page 288
14 - Decision times and eyewitness identification accuracy in simultaneous and sequential lineups......Page 315
15 - Individual differences in personality and eyewitness identification......Page 343
16 - Eyewitness identification confidence......Page 363
17 - Expectations of eyewitness performance: Jurors' verdicts do not follow from their beliefs......Page 377
18 - The appraisal of eyewitness testimony......Page 400
Name index......Page 434
Subject index......Page 441