1. Creating False Memories for Crimes
This collection reviews research into whether suggestive interviews can create detailed false memories of committing crimes. It summarizes a study in which three interviews led 70 percent of participating young adults to report a false criminal memory, while also noting that true memories contained more details and were rated as more vivid and confident.
2. Alcohol and Confessions
This collection examines how alcohol may affect suspects’ behavior, memory, and understanding during police questioning, drawing on studies of intoxication and confession decisions. It summarizes research reporting that intoxication can impair some aspects of Miranda comprehension and influence jurors’ views of a confession, while other studies examine intoxicated witnesses and suspects in case processing.
4. Anger and Memory
This article gathers material on how stress and emotion may affect memory formation and recall, including research related to anger. It summarizes studies linking stress hormones with impaired retrieval under some conditions and reviews work proposing that emotions such as anger can shape which details are encoded or remembered.
Memory for Crimes and Alcohol
This article reviews how alcohol may affect memory formation and reconstruction for criminal events, including attention, episodic memory, and the encoding of new information. It also collects research on alcohol and eyewitness or suspect reporting, describing findings that vary across studies and memory tasks rather than treating intoxication as having one uniform effect.