The impact of eyewitness expert evidence and judicial instruction on juror ability to evaluate eyewitness testimony

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 225-236

  Martire, Kristy A ^a   Kemp, Richard I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision making; Expert testimony; Eyewitness; Judge; Memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EXPERT WITNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JURISPRUDENCE; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; OFFENDER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; EXPERT TESTIMONY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MENTAL RECALL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); UNIVERSITIES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 67349273598     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-008-9134-z     Document Type: Article

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