Witnesses often go along with each other, either to win social approval or because they believe the other witnesses are right and they are wrong
Unlike with memory contamination, the actual memory is unchanged
Research into misleading information
It has important practical uses in the criminal justice system
Leading questions by police officers
Can have a distorting effect on memory of eyewitnesses
Psychologists are sometimes asked to act as expert witnesses in court trials and explain the limits of EWT to juries
This shows that psychologists can help to improve the way the legal system works, especially by protecting innocent people from faulty convictions based on unreliable EWT
