Leading Questions and the Eyewitness Report PDF
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University of Washington
Elizabeth F. Loftus
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eyewitness testimony
memory
psychology
cognitive science
Summary
This paper from 1975 examines how the wording of questions influences eyewitness accounts of events. It explores the effect of presuppositions in questions on later memory recall, and the ways in which memories can be reconstructed or altered. This work is part of cognitive science and memory research.
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