Eyewitness And Emotions Paper

Eyewitness and Emotions Eyewitness information is necessary for people to know when a crime has occurred, it is especially important to people who are in the criminal justice system (Jennifer Beaudry., et la, 2013). One factor that could possibly affect the reliability of the testimony is the emotional experience that the witness had. Eyewitness often have a difficult time recalling what the person looks like who has committed the time. Researchers have questioned whether or not the negative emotion from the event has contributed to the person lack of ability to describe the person. Based off these emotional experiences, Kate Houstin, Brian Clifford, Louise Phillips & Amina Memon (2013), conducted an experiment to determine if negative emotions affect the quantity of information participants have been giving to the researcher when asked to recall what
One study tested only male active duty military personnel on his ability to identify a person accurately. The participants went through two phases, one was called didactic and the second was called experiential. The didactic phase helped the participants prepare for the second phase. The second phase had the participants confined in a mock prisoner of war camp, which involved the participants being in isolation, and interrogated. The participants took the Weschler Face Test to determine the accuracy of his face recognition abilities. The results of this test showed that some of the participants could not identify the perpetrator who interrogated them, but most of the participants were able to successfully identify the correct person. The participant’ performance on the face test was associated with how well the person was able to identify the perpetrator earlier. There were more true positive responses and less false negative responses for the people that scored accurately on identifying the