Factors affecting EWT

• Misleading info

  • leading questions
  • Post-event discussions
• Leading questions-when because of rhe way a question is phrased, a question suggests a certain answer
• A01 study for leading questions

  [Loftus&Palmer] - 45 students watched film clips

  • 5 verbs in the critcal question 'how fast where the cars going when they ----- eachother'
  • smashed=40.5mph
  • response bias explanation
  • substitution explanation
• Post event discussions- occurs when there is more than one witness

  [Gabbert et al] participants in pairs

  • control group= 0%
  • discussion group = 71% inaccurate info
• + Practical application in the real world

  • innacurate EWT can be very serious
  • Poice officers need to be careful with leading questions
  • Improving legal system
• -Lacks mundane realism
• -research into misleading info lacks mundane realism

  • WATCHING film clips- does not take into account other factors eg anxiety
  • Artificial