Reviews for Eyewitness testimony

The average rating for Eyewitness testimony based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-06-11 00:00:00 Ronald Adkins This book took me a while to get through for a couple of reasons. One, it's a fairly dry read. Not hard to read, by any means, but very much "here's the research, here's what we've found to be the case". There are some real cases included that make it less dry, but this is not a breezy summer read. Second, much of the information in this book is not new to me. Having read other stuff about memory and the foibles of eyewitnesses, I was aware of a lot of what was discussed. It was very interesting to see how the actual experiments were performed and see the actual results, but nothing was terribly surprising for me. Finally, this book is a bit out-dated, having been written in the late seventies. It is interesting that, as far as I'm aware, a lot of the results discussed in the book have gone on to be further confirmed in the intervening years. But some of the references are pretty dated, and you never really forget that you're reading information from the seventies. That being said, I think this is a great book, and an important one for people to read. Especially with the thought that any of us could end up on a jury and have to decide the fate of a person, possibly with eyewitness testimony. People who are absolutely certain that eyewitnesses are the pinnacle of proof against criminals definitely need to be exposed to this information. If there's an updated version of this, I'd probably recommend it over this version, but either way, it's worth a read.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-03-17 00:00:00 Emma Johnson "a garden store or a bowling alley"