A Meta-Analytic Review of the Effects of High Stress on Eyewitness Memory

• Published in: Law and human behavior Vol. 28; no. 6; pp. 687 - 706
• Main Authors: Deffenbacher, Kenneth A, Bornstein, Brian H, Penrod, Steven D, McGorty, E. Kiernan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers 01.12.2004; American Psychological Law Society
• Subjects: Anxiety; Attention control; Child; Child, Preschool; Correlation analysis; Criminal Psychology; Estimate reliability; Eyewitness identification; Eyewitness memory; Face; False alarms; Human; Humans; Hypotheses; Identification; Impact analysis; Jurisprudence; Memory; Mental Recall; Perpetrators; Police lineups; Psychological stress; Recognition (Psychology); Stress; Stress, Physiological - psychology; Studies; Violent crimes; Visual Perception; Witnesses; United States > US; high and low stress; meta-analytic; eyewitness memory

In the past 30 years researchers have examined the impact of heightened stress on the fidelity of eyewitness memory. Meta-analyses were conducted on 27 independent tests of the effects of heightened stress on eyewitness identification of the perpetrator or target person and separately on 36 tests of...