- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Digital media accompanying the book
- Chapter 1 Collaborative Remembering: Background and Approaches
- Chapter 2 Socializing Early Skills for Remembering Through Parent–Child Conversations During and After Events
- Chapter 3 Developing Social Functions of Autobiographical Memory within Family Storytelling
- Chapter 4 Collaborative Inhibition in Group Recall: Cognitive Principles and Implications
- Chapter 5 Social Aspects of Forgetting
- Chapter 6 Memory Conformity Following Collaborative Remembering
- Chapter 7 The Socially Shared Nature of Memory: From Joint Encoding to Communication
- Chapter 8 Collaborative Remembering and Reminiscence in Older Adults
- Chapter 9 Memories and Identities in Conversation with Dementia
- Chapter 10 Multimodal Processes of Joint Remembering in Complex Collaborative Activities
- Chapter 11 Contextualizing Autobiographical Remembering: An Expanded View of Memory
- Chapter 12 Collaborative Processes in Neuropsychological Interviews
- Chapter 13 Collaborative Memory Knowledge: A Distributed Reliabilist Perspective
- Chapter 14 Group-level Cognizing, Collaborative Remembering, and Individuals
- Chapter 15 Remembering Good and Bad Times Together: Functions of Collaborative Remembering
- Chapter 16 Collective Memory: How Groups Remember Their Past
- Chapter 17 Culture in Collaborative Remembering
- Chapter 18 Encouraging Collaborative Remembering Between Young Children and Their Caregivers
- Chapter 19 Parent–Child Construction of Personal Memories in Reminiscing Conversations: Implications for the Development and Treatment of Childhood Psychopathology
- Chapter 20 Forensic Applications of Social Memory Research
- Chapter 21 Digital Media and the Precarity of Memory
- Chapter 22 Design Applications for Social Remembering
- Chapter 23 Applications of Collaborative Memory: Patterns of Success and Failure in Individuals with Hippocampal Amnesia
- Chapter 24 Collaborative Memory Interventions for Age-Related and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Memory Decline
- Chapter 25 Collaborative Remembering in Dementia: A Focus on Joint Activities
- Chapter 26 Concluding Remarks: Common Themes and Future Directions
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Forensic Applications of Social Memory Research
Forensic Applications of Social Memory Research
- Chapter:
- (p.353) Chapter 20 Forensic Applications of Social Memory Research
- Source:
- Collaborative Remembering
- Author(s):
Helen Paterson
Lauren Monds
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Within the legal system an assumption exists that witness testimonies should be independent of one another; however the evidence suggests that this is frequently not the case. Witnesses commonly discuss the event with each other. It is important to determine the effects of cowitness information on the validity of eyewitness testimony. It is generally recognized that discussion between witnesses can be detrimental; the possibility of false information (or information that the participant never saw) entering recall is a key concern. We review the prevalence of cowitness discussion, legal opinions about cowitness discussion, and finally experimental research investigating the effects of discussion on eyewitness memory. We also provide some suggestions of how to prevent cowitness discussion and contamination of testimony.
Keywords: cowitness discussion, eyewitness testimony, forensic psychology, legal system, individual differences, memory
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- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Digital media accompanying the book
- Chapter 1 Collaborative Remembering: Background and Approaches
- Chapter 2 Socializing Early Skills for Remembering Through Parent–Child Conversations During and After Events
- Chapter 3 Developing Social Functions of Autobiographical Memory within Family Storytelling
- Chapter 4 Collaborative Inhibition in Group Recall: Cognitive Principles and Implications
- Chapter 5 Social Aspects of Forgetting
- Chapter 6 Memory Conformity Following Collaborative Remembering
- Chapter 7 The Socially Shared Nature of Memory: From Joint Encoding to Communication
- Chapter 8 Collaborative Remembering and Reminiscence in Older Adults
- Chapter 9 Memories and Identities in Conversation with Dementia
- Chapter 10 Multimodal Processes of Joint Remembering in Complex Collaborative Activities
- Chapter 11 Contextualizing Autobiographical Remembering: An Expanded View of Memory
- Chapter 12 Collaborative Processes in Neuropsychological Interviews
- Chapter 13 Collaborative Memory Knowledge: A Distributed Reliabilist Perspective
- Chapter 14 Group-level Cognizing, Collaborative Remembering, and Individuals
- Chapter 15 Remembering Good and Bad Times Together: Functions of Collaborative Remembering
- Chapter 16 Collective Memory: How Groups Remember Their Past
- Chapter 17 Culture in Collaborative Remembering
- Chapter 18 Encouraging Collaborative Remembering Between Young Children and Their Caregivers
- Chapter 19 Parent–Child Construction of Personal Memories in Reminiscing Conversations: Implications for the Development and Treatment of Childhood Psychopathology
- Chapter 20 Forensic Applications of Social Memory Research
- Chapter 21 Digital Media and the Precarity of Memory
- Chapter 22 Design Applications for Social Remembering
- Chapter 23 Applications of Collaborative Memory: Patterns of Success and Failure in Individuals with Hippocampal Amnesia
- Chapter 24 Collaborative Memory Interventions for Age-Related and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Memory Decline
- Chapter 25 Collaborative Remembering in Dementia: A Focus on Joint Activities
- Chapter 26 Concluding Remarks: Common Themes and Future Directions
- Author Index
- Subject Index