TY - JOUR N1 - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions. KW - Social Sciences KW - Psychology KW - Experimental KW - Psychology KW - Eyewitness identification KW - confidence KW - reliability KW - contamination AV - public TI - Doing right by the eyewitness evidence: a response to Berkowitz et al EP - 74 IS - 1 SP - 73 VL - 30 JF - Memory PB - ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD A1 - Wixted, JT A1 - Mickes, L A1 - Brewin, CR A1 - Andrews, B Y1 - 2022/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1940206 ID - discovery10131983 N2 - Berkowitz et al. (Berkowitz, S. R., Garrett, B. L., Fenn, K. M., & Loftus, E. F. (2020). Convicting with confidence? Why we should not over-rely on eyewitness confidence. Memory. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1849308) attribute to us the claim that ?confidence trumps all?, and the few out-of-context quotations they selected can certainly be used to create that false impression. However, it is easily disproved, and we do so here. The notion that ?confidence trumps all? is the mistake that the jurors made in the DNA exoneration cases, not a position that we have ever advocated. ER -