PSYCH-225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Eyewitness Testimony, Psych, Normative Social Influence
25 Sep 2020
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Type of person who will be most favorable to your side. Ask potential jurors questions to see whether they would be a good person for the trial. Cases involving eyewitness testimony significantly more convictions. Study: staged crime in front of waiting subjects. Witnesses described thief and did line up. Jurors believed eyewitness 80% regardless of accuracy. We have a schema for eyewitnesses, that if they were there they can identify the right person. The data shows we re really bad at picking the right person in a line up. However we are good at convincing people we have picked correctly and we know what we are talking about. Watch crime tape, varied violence, disguise, time before lineup. Only confidence had any effect on the verdict. If they answer faster they seem more sure of their. Details of the crime, even if unrelated, make them look. But no actual relationship to accuracy for either like they"ve picked out the right person.
