Post-event discussion

• Supporting evidence

  Gabbet et al (2003)- found that when participants discussed after watching different perspectives of a crime that 71% of participants recalled aspects that they didn't see.
• Practical applications

  Factors like leading questions have informed the police on how to effectively interview eyewitnesses.
• Methodological issues

  In Loftus and Palmer's study events may be less stressful then in real life. Foster et al (1994) also found that consequences to EWT cannot translate to research scenarios.
• Supporting evidence- memory contamination

  Skagerberg and Wright (2008)- found that ppts memories was distorted through contamination of post-event discussion rather than them conforming.