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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 compilation reviews research on how trauma and stress can affect memory, including stability, recall, organization, and susceptibility to later information. Its cited studies describe varied findings, such as memory impairments or disorganization in some samples and vulnerability to misinformation, so it does not treat every traumatic memory as either uniformly accurate or uniformly impaired.
This article reports a meta-analysis comparing autobiographical-memory performance in adults with borderline personality disorder and healthy controls. The authors found substantial differences on several memory measures and interpret overgeneral recall through the CaR-FA-X model, which includes rumination, functional avoidance, and limits in executive control.
This overview describes the serial-position effect, in which people tend to recall the first and last items in a sequence better than items in the middle. It explains primacy through rehearsal and longer-term storage, and recency through working-memory availability and temporal context, noting that intervening tasks can weaken recency.
This declaration describes memory processes that the psychologist says may affect recollection in a sexual-assault case. It discusses reconstructive recall, source misattribution, memory change over time, suggestion, hindsight bias, motivated memory, and imagination inflation, emphasizing that interacting influences may alter a person’s account.
Children’s suggestibility can be shaped by factors such as age, prior knowledge, interviewer bias, repeated questions, and exposure to misinformation. The resource reviews research on children’s memory and forensic interviews, including findings that changing details of an experienced event may differ from planting or erasing an event memory.
Principles of child forensic interviewing include preparation, developmentally appropriate practice, and careful attention to how information is elicited. The DOJ bulletin summarizes interview stages and cautions about repeated or duplicative questioning, while a research review addresses assumptions about children’s testimonial accuracy.
The article considers reported memory loss for violent acts committed during intense anger, a phenomenon it calls a ‘red-out.’ The authors discuss possible explanations, including state-dependent memory, and address malingering, intoxication, organic factors, personality, legal issues, and limitations in establishing another person’s memory.
Research on PTSD and memory examines both memory impairment and the way traumatic recollections may be fragmented or intrusive. The compilation summarizes studies of trauma-related remembering and forgetting, including dissociation, autobiographical memory, and narrative features associated with PTSD symptoms.
The material reviews neurological and psychological consequences reported after strangulation or attempted hanging, including cerebral oxygen deprivation and memory impairment. It also summarizes shelter and emergency-care studies in which intimate-partner strangulation was reported frequently, alongside symptoms and patterns of seeking medical help.
