B. Mistakes at the Retention Stage
Second, facts may have been accurately recorded in the first place, but then change…
How can such influence materialize? First of all, witnesses can be subject to so-called…
One may say that such source confusion does not give rise to any problems as long…
First, lawyers are not only interested in the facts, but also interested in learning…
Second, PEI does not only lead to source confusion, it can also change memory. Most…
Further, research carried out by Loftus and others shows that it is possible to create entirely false memories, i.e., a recollection of events that never occurred (so-called memory implants).…
Other research shows how the biased retelling of events (i.e., retelling from a certain…