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Participants were studied in pairs. Each participant watched a video of the same crime, but filmed from different perspectives.

Both participants then discussed what they had seen before individually completing a recall test.

71% of participants mistakenly recalled aspects of the event that they did not see in the video but had picked up in the discussion.

It was concluded that witnesses often go along with each other, either to win social approval or because they believe the other witnesses are right and they are wrong - memory conformity.