Witnesses Pollute Each Other's Testimony
Research: witnesses correct each other’s testimonies
It is not correct that witnesses pollute each other’s memory, researchers from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam say. In a joint hearing they even provide better information.
This is shown by two studies of forensic psychologists Annelies Vredeveldt and Peter van Koppen of VU Amsterdam. The studies have been published in the Legal and Criminological Psychology journal and the journal Memory.
The police hear witnesses in principle separately, because abundant research says that witnesses can pollute each other’s memory. According to Vredeveldt, however, the experiments from that research are not very realistic.
Vredeveldt hopes to demonstrate through a different study design that witnesses can
It is not correct that witnesses pollute each other’s memory, researchers from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam say. In a joint hearing they even provide better information.
This is shown by two studies of forensic psychologists Annelies Vredeveldt and Peter van Koppen of VU Amsterdam. The studies have been published in the Legal and Criminological Psychology journal and the journal Memory.
The police hear witnesses in principle separately, because abundant research says that witnesses can pollute each other’s memory. According to Vredeveldt, however, the experiments from that research are not very realistic.
Vredeveldt hopes to demonstrate through a different study design that witnesses can