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Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness, and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial - Softcover

Loftus, Dr. Elizabeth

 
9780312084554: Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness, and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0312084552 ISBN 13: 9780312084554
Verlag: St. Martin's Griffin, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

"The study of memory had become my specialty, my passion. In the next few years I wrote dozens of papers about how memory works and how it fails, but unlike most researchers studying memory, my work kept reaching out into the real world. To what extent, I wondered, could a person's memory be shaped by suggestion? When people witness a serious automobile accident, how accurate is their recollection of the facts? If a witness is questioned by a police officer, will the manner of questioning alter the representation of the memory? Can memories be supplemented with additional, false information?"

The "passion" Loftus describes in the lines above led her to a teaching career at the University of Washington and, perhaps more importantly, into hundreds of courtrooms as an expert witness on the fallibility of eyewitness accounts. As she has explained in numerous trials, and as she convincingly argues in this absorbing book, eyewitness accounts can be and often are so distorted that they no longer resemble the truth.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham

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Witness for the Defense is a collection of true stories based on Dr. Elizabeth Loftus's personal experiences as an expert witness. It is our goal to use these real-life courtroom dramas as a vehicle for conveying information about psychology in general and memory in particular.

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Verlag
St. Martin's Griffin
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0312084552
ISBN 13 
9780312084554
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
308
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