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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.
This compilation gathers research using the term ‘drift’ in studies of memory strength, recall, forgetting, and decision processes, alongside work on warning signals and predator memory. The cited papers examine different tasks and models, including delayed judgments of learning and age-related memory performance, so the collection presents research topics rather than direct evidence about memory changes in a particular witness.
This collection summarizes research on how suggestion and stress can affect adults’ reports and memories, including reconstruction of alcohol-related memory gaps and experiments involving misinformation or guided recall. The studies described report that outside cues can shape recollection and that interrogation stress or persuasive tactics affected suggestibility and false-confession outcomes in some participant groups.
Often prosecution utilizes a counterintuitive “expert” to explain away problematic behaviors on the part of the complaining witness. Dr. Simpson offers a CLE training and 85-page handout on how to effectively challenge their expert.
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:
