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 ...

A strong memory sounds like an unmitigated good, but science shows that vivid recall can distort your reality, fuel anxiety ...

Eyewitness memory is not entirely reliable. This unreliability can derive from inherent limitations in the perception of criminal acts (including relative darkness, brevity of exposure, and occlusion ...

Of the 317 people wrongly convicted in the U.S. and proven innocent by DNA, eyewitness misidentification was the single greatest cause, playing a role in 72 percent of the cases, says the Innocence ...