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Evolving Witness Statements in Trayvon Martin Case Suspect
23 May 2012, 3:31 pm
COMMENTARY | According to the Orlando Sentinel, witnesses in the controversial Trayvon Martin case are changing their testimonies. Four witnesses changed their statements when reinterviewed, with one claiming she was changing her mind about who was on top in the physical struggle between Martin and George Zimmerman based on "seeing the TV of what's happening." She claims news reports revealed ...
'Innocent man' in jail 20 years
18 May 2012, 12:53 pm
An innocent man has spent almost 20 years in jail for one of New Zealand's most notorious cases of rape and murder, says a detective with expert knowledge of the crime.Susan Burdett was brutally raped and murdered in her Papatoetoe...
Reasonable doubts
18 May 2012, 12:51 pm
In March 1992 Susan Burdett, a 39-year-old accounts clerk who lived alone, was raped and murdered after returning to her Papatoetoe unit following an evening of 10-pin bowling.A colleague found her after she failed to turn up for...
Can you identify?
16 May 2012, 7:02 pm
Science shows that the only way around some readers' prejudices is to trick them
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Evolving Witness Statements in Trayvon Martin Case Suspect - YAHOO!
23 May 2012, 3:52 pm
Eyewitness testimony has been criticized by its
suggestibility, with witnesses changing their minds about victims, suspects and evidence after being influenced by outside factors. In such a controversial case raising heated questions about racism ...
'Innocent man' in jail 20 years - New Zealand Herald
18 May 2012, 12:31 pm
The Weekend Herald has also learned that an internationally renowned authority on
suggestibility and false confessions, Gisli Gudjonsson, recently reviewed nine hours of videotaped interviews Pora gave police and visited him in prison. Dr Gudjonsson ...
Reasonable doubts - New Zealand Herald
18 May 2012, 12:09 pm
He identified a range of emotional and psychological factors, such as compliance,
suggestibility and personality disorders. This led him to produce the Gudjonsson
suggestibility Scales which are now used throughout the world when issues of false confessions arise.
Readers and Reading - Salon
16 May 2012, 6:59 pm
The
suggestibility of readers isn’t news. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel of a sensitive young man destroyed by unrequited love, “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” inspired a rash of suicides by would-be Werthers in the late 1700s.
Music and Hypnosis - 1UP.COM
14 May 2012, 11:48 pm
Yet studies of
suggestibility invariably focus altogether upon the latter condition. Isn't that like looking through the wrong end of the telescope? Lest the following description be thought too vague, let me discuss that not all shifts of consciousness ...