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Doing right by the eyewitness evidence: a response to Berkowitz et al

Wixted, JT; Mickes, L; Brewin, CR; Andrews, B; (2022) Doing right by the eyewitness evidence: a response to Berkowitz et al. Memory , 30 (1) pp. 73-74. 10.1080/09658211.2021.1940206. Green open access

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Abstract

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.

Type: Article
Title: Doing right by the eyewitness evidence: a response to Berkowitz et al
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2021.1940206
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1940206
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Social Sciences, Psychology, Experimental, Psychology, Eyewitness identification, confidence, reliability, contamination
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10131983
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