We have known for years that eye witness accounts at trials are not reliable.http://www.nbcnews.com/health/emb-3p-even-people-super-recall-tripped-false-memories-study-2D11603596
And I expect most of us have experience in our own lives the difference in the way two people remember the same event.
Brian Alexander
Nov. 19, 2013
Some people have an amazing ability to recall specific events, like exactly what happened on a particular day decades ago. For example, when one person with such so-called highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM) was asked what happened on October 19, 1987, she quickly replied that it was a Monday, “the day of the big stock market crash and the cellist Jacqueline du Pré died that day.”
Yet even people with exceptional recall are as susceptible to being manipulated by false memories as the rest of us, according to new research released today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The results could have enormous implications for legal proceedings, and any other forum that relies upon the memory of witnesses.
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This is how eyewitnesses can be influenced by police suggestion or news reports.
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People can swear in court, and truly believe, in the accuracy of their false memories. But, as Hicks said, “confidence does not equal accuracy.”
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