nomothetic

general principles

nomothetic

general principles

idiographic

each case is unique

legal psychology

experimental/cognitive

forensic psychology

clinical

independent variable

manipulated

dependent variable

measured

within subject

participants multiple conditions

between

participants in different conditions

Paul Ingram

recovered memories of satanic abuse by their father and later their father also did

central park joggers

wrongfully convicted —> suggestive questionning

Steve Titus

was identified during an suggestive line up after rape

history start

psychology of testimony

Thucydides

coincidence between accounts of the same occurences by different witnesses arising sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other

undue partiality

Undue partiality means showing unfair favoritism or bias toward someone when you shouldn’t.

Hans Gross

Kriminal psychology (1889) = eyewitness testimony

Stern

psychology der aussage (1901) = statements suggesitibility memory

one of the first drame experiment/reality = student fights professor

Von Listzt

same experiments as Stern

Stern = still relevant

The children (juveniles) should be questioned, if at all possible, only once, in an anxiety-free atmosphere, as soon as possible after the experience in question, and only by a particularly apt personality

Binet

La suggestibility 1900

Munsterburg

On the witness stand 1908 = once important not undisputed

Varendonck

1911 children and suggestion

Van Geuns

1914 drugs and testimony

revival

1970/1980

Toch

Legal and criminal psychol (1961)

cleckley

psychopathy

1970

fallibility of testimony

1990

debate on trauma and memory

Eyensenck

crime and personality