People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened

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People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened

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Skeptic@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Lab-based research shows that adults can be convinced, over the course of a few hours, that as teens they perpetrated crimes that never actually occurred.

An interesting article reminding us how eyewitness testimony can be a highly unreliable form of evidence.

The full paper can be read here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270964372_Constructing_Rich_False_Memories_of_Committing_Crime

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