Monday, June 7, 2004
Think You’ll Remember Your Assailant?
“Contrary to the popular conception that most people would never forget the face of a clearly seen individual who had physically confronted them and threatened them for more than 30 minutes, a large number of subjects in this study were unable to correctly identify their perpetrator”
I’ve always thought that situations like that would be ’embedded’ in your mind so to speak, but the study found that not only could the participants not correctly identify their confrontor, “those interrogated confused even the gender of the guard and/or interrogator.”
This seems like it would place eyewitness and victim identifications into even greater doubt.