COMMON BELIEFS
The common beliefs tab explores thoughts, ideas, and experiments. Comparing what is commonly believed or practiced in the field of eyewitness testimony to what is found through psychological studies to be proven true. In the memories tab you will be shown how photographic memories work, how the mind stores images, and how these memories can be altered by exposure to the media and false confidence.
This brings us to our next area of though, accuracy and confidence. It is commonly believed that an eyewitness who has complete confidence in his or her testimony is more likely to be accurate. Well, this common belief has been debunked by many psychologists specializing in eyewitness memory through tests and experiments. We will further discuss this in the accuracy/confidence tab.
Many have full and extreme trust in the judicial system however, clicking the judicial system tab may alter the way you think. While this is in no way degrading the judicial system many eyewitness studies have shown flaws in the way police question eyewitnesses and perform lineups, whether photo or physical. We will explain how doing so can change or completely erase the memory of an eyewitness. Judges as well as jurors have little to no understanding of how the eyewitness memory works, believing it to be concrete evidence.
This brings us to our next area of though, accuracy and confidence. It is commonly believed that an eyewitness who has complete confidence in his or her testimony is more likely to be accurate. Well, this common belief has been debunked by many psychologists specializing in eyewitness memory through tests and experiments. We will further discuss this in the accuracy/confidence tab.
Many have full and extreme trust in the judicial system however, clicking the judicial system tab may alter the way you think. While this is in no way degrading the judicial system many eyewitness studies have shown flaws in the way police question eyewitnesses and perform lineups, whether photo or physical. We will explain how doing so can change or completely erase the memory of an eyewitness. Judges as well as jurors have little to no understanding of how the eyewitness memory works, believing it to be concrete evidence.