Northern California Innocence Project found 2020 law to prevent wrongful incarceration is not being followed. SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 24, 2024 – The Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A common Psych101 exercise involves a rendition of pennies on a slide. Only one is the real penny; the others have various ...

Picture this: You are walking home alone. It’s dark, and you feel like someone is watching you. Suddenly someone comes around the corner and threatens you, taking your things. It all happens in a ...

(Medical Xpress) -- New research by a University of California, Riverside psychologist raises serious questions about eyewitness identification procedures that are being adopted by police departments ...

Eyewitness identification remains a pivotal yet complex facet of criminal investigations and legal proceedings. Research in this area spans from the cognitive processes underlying face recognition to ...

The accurate identification of the perpetrators of crimes presents a critical psychological problem for law enforcement and the criminal justice system. Much research has shown that the single ...

Former United States Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr. wrote in a dissenting opinion nearly 35 years ago, “There is almost nothing more convincing than a live human being who takes the ...

Eyewitness identification can be one of the more powerful forms of evidence in trials, but it can also be one of the least accurate. WGBH's Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern ...