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Penrod and Cutler, (1995) ‘Witness Confidence and Witness Accuracy

Penrod and Cutler, (1995) ‘Witness Confidence and Witness Accuracy: Assessing their Forensic Relation’, Psychology, Public Policy and Law 1 (4), 817–45.

Background

This is the second study we will be looking at from the ‘witness appeal’ section of ‘reaching a verdict’, as part of your OCR A2 Forensic Psychology course. It is further categorised into ‘witness confidence.’

One of the most convincing features of a witness is their confidence when delivering their version of events.

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