Eyewitness Identifications

   
     

Publications

 

Kassin, Tubb, Hosch, & Memon (2002). Eyewitness experts in court: Responsive to change in a dynamic and rational process. American Psychologist.

Kassin, Tubb, Hosch, & Memon (2001). On the "general acceptance" of eyewitness testimony research: A new survey of the experts. American Psychologist.

Kassin (1998). Eyewitness identification procedures: The fifth rule. Law and Human Behavior.

Kassin, Ellsworth, & Smith (1994). Deja vu all over again: Elliott's critique of eyewitness experts. Law and Human Behavior.

Kassin & Barndollar (1992). On the psychology of eyewitness testimony: A comparison of experts and prospective jurors. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

Kassin, Rigby, & Castillo (1991). The accuracy confidence correlation in eyewitness testimony: Limits and extensions of the retrospective self awareness effect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Kassin, Ellsworth, & Smith (1989). The "general acceptance" of psychological research on eyewitness testimony: A survey of the experts. American Psychologist.

Smith, Kassin, & Ellsworth (1989). Eyewitness accuracy and confidence: Within versus between subject correlations. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Kassin (1985). Eyewitness identification: Retrospective self-awareness and the accuracy confidence correlation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Kassin (1984). Eyewitness identification: Victims versus bystanders. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

 
   
      Stimulus Materials  

Kassin, Tubb, Hosch, & Memon (2001). For a verbatim copy of the 30 items used in this survey of eyewitness experts, click here.

 
   
     

Links

 

To address problems with eyewitness identifications, the U.S. Department of Justice assembled a working group of police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and research psychologists. In 1999, the group authored a manual, Eyewitness Evidence: A Guide for Law Enforcement. Click here for a copy.

To learn more about the psychology of eyewitness memory and behavior, visit the following interactive web sites.

PBS Frontline
Prof. Gary Wells (Iowa State University)
Prof. Roy Malpass (University of Texas at El Paso)

 
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