-the wording of a question can lead you to acertain answer, which is an issue for EWT as police couldlead witnesses towards a certain answerRESEARCH:-Loftus and Palmerhad 45 participants (Students), who all watched clips of car accidents, and were then asked questions. They were split into5 groupsfor these questions, and they were all asked "about how fast were the cars going when they ___" and adifferent verb was used for each group; smashed, contacted, bumped, hit, collided-overall, when the verbsmashedwas used, the mean answer was40.5mphwhereas whencontactedwas used, the mean answer was31.5mph.-this shows that leading questions effect EWT