| Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness, and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial Contributor(s): Loftus, Elizabeth (Author), Ketcham, Katherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312084552 ISBN-13: 9780312084554 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL OUR PRICE: $20.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1992 Annotation: Witness for the Defense is a collection of true stories based on Dr. Elizabeth Loftus's personal experiences as an expert witness. It is our goal to use these real-life courtroom dramas as a vehicle for conveying information about psychology in general and memory in particular. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Law Enforcement - Social Science |
| Dewey: 347.305 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.87 lbs) 312 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The study of memory had become my specialty, my passion. In the next few years I wrote dozens of papers about how memory works and how it fails, but unlike most researchers studying memory, my work kept reaching out into the real world. To what extent, I wondered, could a person's memory be shaped by suggestion? When people witness a serious automobile accident, how accurate is their recollection of the facts? If a witness is questioned by a police officer, will the manner of questioning alter the representation of the memory? Can memories be supplemented with additional, false information? The passion Loftus describes in the lines above led her to a teaching career at the University of Washington and, perhaps more importantly, into hundreds of courtrooms as an expert witness on the fallibility of eyewitness accounts. As she has explained in numerous trials, and as she convincingly argues in this absorbing book, eyewitness accounts can be and often are so distorted that they no longer resemble the truth. |
Contributor Bio(s): Loftus, Elizabeth: - Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington, is also the author of Witness for the Defense and Eyewitness Testimony. Ketcham, Katherine: - Katherine Ketcham is also the co-author of Under the Influence, The Spirituality of Imperfection, Beyond the Influence, The Power of Empathy, and other books. |