Loftus et al

• pps watched a slide of a event in a restaurant, half pps saw a man hand a gun and other half a cheque towards the cashier.
• Those pps who saw the gun remembered less details about the event
• Loftus used tunnel theory to explain these results arguing that when in an anxious situation your vision will tunnel and you will lose focus on the item that causes you anxiety. in this case loftus described the effect as 'weapon focus', and argued that this focus on a weapon means the reported details of the event are less accurate.
• evaluation of loftus- research had standardised procedures, for example all details in the slides pps witnessed were the same other than the item the an was holding- this means researchers can establish that the cause in the change in EWT accuracy was the gun solely.
• Lacks mundane realism- it is unlikely any real anxiety by watching a slideshow,