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Defendants in sexual assault cases are just as likely to misremember the event as alleged victims – new study

By Ciara Greene, Associate Professor of Psychology, University College Dublin
Psychologists have intensively studied the factors that make both eyewitnesses and victims more or less susceptible to memory distortion. But to date there has been no experimental evidence comparing memory suggestibility between the complainants and accused in sexual assault cases.

My recent study was the first to compare…The Conversation


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