Adult Eyewitness Testimony
Current Trends and Developments

Investigates the factors that influence the accuracy of eyewitness testimony.

David Frank Ross (Edited by), J. Don Read (Edited by), Michael P. Toglia (Edited by)

9780521432559, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 25 March 1994

452 pages
23.6 x 15.9 x 2.8 cm, 0.829 kg

"Overall, if one were looking for a comprehensive book on research in eyewitness identification, this would be it." Jill Rowan, Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Adult Eyewitness Testimony: Current Trends and Developments provides an overview of 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 judicial system.

List of contributors
Preface
Part I. Cognitive, Physical and Social Processes and Factors Influencing Eyewitness Recall and Identification: 1. Reports of suggested memories: do people truly believe them? Kenneth R. Weingardt, H. Kelly Toland and Elizabeth F. Loftus
2. Memory source monitoring and eyewitness testimony D. Stephen Lindsay
3. Understanding bystander misidentifications: the role of familiarity and contextual knowledge J. Don Read
4. Unconscious transference and lineup identification: toward a memory blending approach David F. Ross, Stephen J. Ceci, David Dunning and Michael P. Toglia
5. Earwitness evidence: memory for a perpetrator's voice A. Daniel Yarmey
6. Whole body information: its relevance to eyewitnesses Malcolm D. MacLeod, Jason N. Frowley and John W. Shepherd
7. Actual victims and witnesses to robbery and fraud: an archival analysis Patricia A. Tollestrup, John W. Turtle and John C. Yuille
Part II. Lineup Construction and Collection of Testimony: 8. Conceptual, practical and empirical issues associated with eyewitness identification test media Brian L. Cutler, Garrett L. Berman, Steven Penrod and Ronald P. Fisher
9. Biased lineups: where do they come from? R. C. L. Lindsay
10. Evaluating the fairness of lineups John C. Brigham and Jeffrey E. Pfeifer
11. Recommendations for properly conducted lineup identification tasks Gary L. Wells, Eric P. Seelau, Sheila M. Rydell and C. A. Elizabeth Luus
12. Improving eyewitness testimony with the Cognitive Interview Ronald P. Fisher, Michelle R. McCauley and R. Edward Geiselman
Part III. Whom to Believe? Distinguishing Accurate from Inaccurate Eyewitnesses: 13. Distinguishing accurate from inaccurate eyewitness identifications: a reality monitoring approach Lisa Beth Stern and David Dunning
14. Decision times and eyewitness identification accuracy in simultaneous and sequential lineups Siegfried Ludwig Sporer
15. Individual differences in personality and eyewitness identification Harmon Hosch
16. Eyewitness identification confidence C. A. Elizabeth Luus and Gary L. Wells
17. Expectations of eyewitness performance: jurors' verdicts do not follow from their beliefs R. C. L. Lindsay
18. The appraisal of eyewitness testimony Michael R. Leippe
Name index
Subject index.

Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]