01:830:321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Fundamental Attribution Error, Blind Experiment, Eyewitness Identification
26 Dec 2015
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Social psychology of legal evidence: physical evidence. Dna, fingertips, show prints, handwriting samples, bite marks, hair samples, ballistics, blood spatters, autopsy reports, etc . Visual evidence : photographs, videos, body cams. Eyewitness testimony: ex: 22 year old woman jennifer thomson. Woke up at 3am and somebody was in her room. Raped and assaulted her in her room. He held a knife to her throat. Said it would be important to her to know what he looked like if she got out alive. Used her wit and intelligence and she convinced him to let her go because he was very drunk. At police office she helps them make a sketch and felt very confident with it. Put him in a lineup with other guys. Confidently said it was number 5 she said she had no doubt in her mind an alibi. But the guy the whole time says that he did not do it and he has.
