reliability of EWT findings in research = misleading

• is this for or against?

  for
• what is wrong with EWT research conducted in a lab?

  its misleading as tends to focus on details that are difficult to estimate (e.g. speed)
• who has conducted alternative research into EWT?

  Yuille & Cutshall (1986)
• what did Yuille & Cutshall test?

  effect of leading questions on real life eyewitnesses
• how many people did Yuille & Cutshall interview?

  13 people who had witnessed armed robbery in Canada
• when did the interviews take place?

  4 months after robbery & included 2 misleading questions
• what were the interviewees not influenced by?

  misleading questions
• what did the interviewees give?

  accounts similar to those in initial questioning
• what does the interviewees not being influenced suggest?

  witnesses remember real events differently from staged events
• when do real life events often take place?

  unexpectedly & in atmosphere of tension
• what does tension atmosphere create?

  recollection of event more resilient to distortion