People often share their memories in situations where cultures mix. This happens a lot in places like eyewitness interviews. A study looked into how people from Sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe remember and talk about events they witnessed. The experiment involved 64 participants who watched a mock crime video and then described what they saw. The study...

Eyewitness accounts are often pivotal in legal cases, influencing jurors and shaping verdicts. Yet, verifying the truthfulness of these accounts can be challenging, especially when the actual events are unknown. Researchers have explored a method to evaluate the reliability of eyewitness memory by comparing recall of a real crime with a staged event. The idea is that...

Ever wondered if those cops or detectives on shows can remember everything from a crime scene because they thought it happened in a video? Well, some studies pushed the idea that people on a screen may not be as accurate as they could be because we've grown up on video game prayers. Researchers wanted to experiment. They looked at a murder mystery or a crime playe...