Research Catalog

Title

Adult eyewitness testimony : current trends and developments / edited by David Frank Ross, J. Don Read, Michael P. Toglia.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ross, David F., 1959-
• Read, J. Don
• Toglia, Michael P.

Description

xiv, 434 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Adult Eyewitness Testimony: Current Trends and Developments 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: Current Trends and Developments is crucial reading for memory researchers, as well as police officers, judges, lawyers, and other members of the criminal justice system."--Jacket.

Subject

• Eyewitness identification
• Evidence, Criminal
• Forensic psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Reports of suggested memories: do people truly believe them? / Kenneth R. Weingardt, H. Kelly Toland, and Elizabeth F. Loftus--Memory source monitoring and eyewitness testimony / Stephen Lindsay--Understanding bystander misidentifications: the role of familiarity and contextual knowledge / J. Don Read--Unconscious transference and lineup identification: toward a memory blending approach / David F. Ross, Stephen J. Ceci, David Dunning, and Michael P. Toglia--Earwitness evidence: memory for a perpetrator's voice / A. Daniel Yarmey--Whole body information: its relevance to eyewitnesses / Malcolm D. MacLeod, Jason N. Frowley, snd John W. Shepherd--Actual victims and witnesses to robbery and fraud: an archival analysis / Patricia A. Tollestrup, John W. Turtle, and John C. Yuille--Conceptual, practical, and empirical issues associated with eyewitness identification test media / Brian L. Cutler, Garrett L. Berman, Steven Penrod, and Ronald P. Fisher--Biased lineups: where do they come from? / R.C.L. Lindsay.
• (cont.) Evaluating the fairness of lineups / John C. Brigham and Jeffrey E. Pfeifer--Recommendations for properly conducted lineup identification tasks / Gary L. Wells, Eric P. Seelau, Sheila M. Rydell, and C.A. Elizabeth Luus--Improving eyewitness testimony with the cognitive interview / Ronald P. Fisher, Michelle R. McCauley, and R. Edward Geiselman--Distinguishing accurate from inaccurate eyewitness identifications: a reality monitoring approach / Lisa Beth Stern and David Dunning--Decision times and eyewitness identification accuracy in simultaneous and sequential lineups / Siegfried Ludwig Spoor--Individual differences in personality and eyewitness identification / Harmon Hosch--Eyewitness identification confidence / C.A. Elizabeth Luus and Gary L. Wells--Expectations of eyewitness performance: jurors' verdicts do not follow from their beliefs / R.C.L. Lindsay--The appraisal of eyewitness testimony / Michael R. Leippe.

ISBN

0521432553 (hardback)

LCCN

^^^93008004^

OCLC

• 27973520
• SCSB-10142215

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library