Against crimes are emotive experiences

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Statement

Eyewitnesses are not reliable because crimes are emotive experiences

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Explanation

Crimes eyewitnesses experience are traumatising and unexpected

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Evidence

Freud suggests that painful memories are forced into the unconscious by the process of repression

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Why

Against crimes are emotive experiences because…

  • ‘Motivated forgetting’

  • Makes eyewitnesses unreliable

  • If memory is too traumatic