Psychological Aspects of Courtroom Testimony

Dear Colleagues,

Despite amazing progress in forensic sciences, eyewitness testimony remains an important source of information during legal proceedings, and distortions of eyewitness memory reports may contribute to erroneous decisions on the part of the court. The consequences can be far-reaching, including the conviction of innocent persons or the acquittal of guilty ones. Therefore, it is important to understand the determinants and correlates of human testimony. The topics suitable for this Special Issue include (but are not limited to) visual perception and memory, the memory misinformation effect, interrogative suggestibility, eyewitness identification, the psychology of line-up procedures, false confessions, impact of emotions on memory, children as eyewitnesses, lie detection, impact of viewing conditions on the quality of testimony, attention, motivation, skill, prejudice, or bias as factors influencing testimony, the impact of the behaviour of interrogators, subjective confidence versus real accuracy, and others.

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• witness testimony
• line-up
• the psychology of interrogation
• memory
• perception