Impact of Sexual Abuse on Children: A Review and Synthesis of Recent Empirical Studies
An important early article on CSA effects.
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Memory in the Courtroom: What Every Attorney Should Know
Eye witness testimony is central to almost every aspect of a criminal proceedings. Yet this central dynamic is rarely taught for attorneys. Dr. Simpson has provided this training for the State Bar of Arizona (ten times), for the Pima County Public Defender’s Office, and multiple legal offices for the Air Force and Marine JAGS. This 199-page seminar handout is packed with research regarding:
- Principles of memory
- Memory “failures”
- Suggestibility
- Eyewitness memory
- Cognitive interview techniques
- Child eyewitness memory
- The NICHD Standard
- Alcoholic blackout
- Childhood amnesic barrier
- Confirmation bias
- Context effect
- Cross-race effects
- Cryptomnesia
- Egocentric bias
- Fading affect bias
- Self-generation effect
- Hindsight bias
- Illusion-of-Truth effect
- Imagination Inflation
- Leveling and Sharpening
- Misattribution of Memory
- Misinformation effect
- Mood-congruent memory
- Schema / Script memory
- Gist memory
- Telescoping effect
- Weapon focus
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