It isn't news that eyewitness testimony is sometimes inaccurate. What might be news, however, is that significant research makes plain that it is often wrong, even when the eyewitness believes they ...
THE “SATANIC PANIC” that swept through America in the 1980s and 1990s held that thousands of ordinary people up and down the country were secretly members of devil-worshipping cults which were abusing ...
The defense in the Michelle Troconis trial completed day 2 of testimony in the trial of Michelle Troconis. On Thursday, their testimony centered largely around memory and memory loss from a leading ...
STAMFORD, Conn. -- A memory expert took the stand for the defense in the trial of Michelle Troconis on Thursday. Dr. Elizabeth Loftus is considered a foremost expert in the science of false memories. ...
A mock prisoner of war camp at Fort Bragg leads to some interesting research about eyewitness testimony. The study, by Yale and Navy researchers, suggests eyewitness testimony is not very reliable. It ...
Confident, credible eyewitnesses provide very compelling evidence in courtroom proceedings. Yet eyewitness errors frequently have tragic consequences for the wrongly accused. In previous posts of the ...
Elizabeth F. Loftus, distinguished professor of psychological science and criminology, law & society, has been named a Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS and a study she co-authored has won a 2025 ...
An article recently posted on the University of Colorado Boulder website demonstrated the potential of artificial ...
A psychologist called to testify for the defense at the trial of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of helping her close confidant Jeffrey Epstein recruit and sexually abuse underage ...