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Children may make better witnesses than previously thought

January 5, 2013Cara Flanagan

Swedish psychologist Gunilla Fredin has found that children include fewer details in their eyewitness accounts than adults, but that what they do recall is as accurate. Participants in the study  (Fredin, 2011) were children aged 8-9 and 12-13 plus a group of adults (undergraduate students). All participants watched a video of a man looking for his […]

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Eyewitness Testimony

April 7, 2009March 9, 2017Adrian Frost

From Ben Goldacre’s excellent ‘Bad Science’ column for the Guardian a while back: “Some researchers in Bologna demonstrate the spectacular hopelessness of memory. One morning in 1980, a bomb exploded in Bologna station : 85 people died, and the clock stopped ominously showing 10.25, the time of the explosion. This image became a famous symbol for the event, but the clock was repaired soon after, […]

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