Accuracy of Eyewitness Memory Under Leading Questioning: The Effects of Hypnosis and Anxiety
Description:
Hypnosis has gained substantial support in the psychological community, as well as related health professions. The intense renewal of interest in hypnosis has also affected our legal-judicial system. Many police investigators trained in hypnosis operate from an exactcopy memory theory. They claim eyewitness eyewitness retrieve veridically stored memory traces from long-term memory, if questioned under hypnosis. Conversely, other researchers ascribe to a reconstructive memory theory. They believ…
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Date:
August 1984
Creator:
Atkins, Loy Keith, 1955-
Partner:
UNT Libraries