Search for dissertations about: "eyewitness"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the word eyewitness.
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1. Eyewitness testimonies : The memory and meta-memory effects of retellings and discussions with non-witnesses
Abstract : This thesis investigated the effects of eyewitnesses retellings and discussions with non-witnesses on the eyewitness memory and meta-memory judgments. In Study I, the effect of eyewitness discussions with non-witnesses (persons who had not experienced the event) on eyewitness memory and meta-memory realism for the overall information about an event was investigated. READ MORE
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2. Retrieval effort and accuracy in eyewitness testimony
Abstract : For better or worse, eyewitness testimonies make up common evidence in criminal trials. This has the benefit that it allows for guilty offenders to be convicted even in the absence of physical evidence. However, the fallibility of memory also means that eyewitnesses may be mistaken in their recall, risking wrongful, innocent convictions. READ MORE
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3. Group membership and eyewitness testimony
Abstract : The present thesis includes four empirical studies that explore whether eyewitness accounts of a violent crime may be affected by factors related to the group membership of witness, perpetrator, and victim.Study 1 investigates how an immigrant and a Swedish perpetrator of a simulated, violent robbery are evaluated and remembered by immigrant and Swedish witnesses. READ MORE
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4. Child and Adult Witness Event Memory Reporting and Metamemory Capabilities : Social Aspects and Legal Professionals’ Opinions
Abstract : This dissertation focuses on aspects of the social context of child and adult eyewitness memory reports, along with their relation to report accuracy and metamemory performance. More specifically, it investigates the effects on memory reports and metamemory judgments of i) receiving feedback from co-witnesses, ii) being probed for further eventmemory reports, and iii) retelling eventmemory contents. READ MORE
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5. Realism of confidence in witness identification of faces and voices
Abstract : One of the more alarming and intriguing results in forensic psychology is the weakrelationship between confidence and accuracy in experimental studies of eyewitnessidentification. This relationship has traditionally been measured by the point-biserialcorrelation coefficient, rpb. READ MORE