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Post event discussion
When co-witnesses to a crime discuss it with each other their eyewitness testimonies may become contaminated. This is because they combine information from other witnesses with their own memories.
Gabbart et al
- 1.Studied pps in pairs
- 2. pps watched a video to a crime, but filmed from different point of view
- this meant that participants could see elements in the event that the other could not
- 3.Both participants then discussed what they had seen before individually completing a test of recall
- Findings
- 71% mistakenly recalled events not seen in video but picked up through discussion
- control group- no discussion 0%
- conclusion: Witnesses often go along with each other, either for to win social approval or they believe the other is right and they are wrong- memory conformity
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- AS - Level Psychology Mind Map on Post event discussion, created by Lauren Burgess on 04/06/2016.
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