In a 1990's study, participants recalled getting lost in a shopping mall as children. Some shared these memories in vivid detail, but there was one problem: none of these people had actually gotten lost in a mall. They produced these...

This video is the eighth installment of our Psychology Revision Series to prepare you for your exams with exactly the right information that you need to know.

The COGNITIVE INTERVIEW was created by Geiselman and Fisher in a bid to improve the quality of eye witness testimony. The Cognitive Interview has four distinct retrieval techniques at its core:

1) Re-establishing the...

Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor at Harvard University, wrote a groundbreaking book in the 1990s examining the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman at Monticello. Initially interested in how...

We rely on our memory to complete pretty much every task that we set ourselves to. But even with our complete reliance on this cognitive capability, it's only able to accurately recall about 50% of the time... the rest of the time, we...

This video is the eighth installment of our Psychology Revision Series to prepare you for your exams with exactly the right information that you need to know.

Elizabeth Loftus has contributed a huge body of work to Psychology on the topic of eye witness testimony. In this video, we explore why our memory isn't always as good as we think it is, and what implications this can have on eye witness...

This video discusses the issue of lies, deception, and the impact it has on police investigations and courtroom proceedings. It explores the tendency of law enforcement to assume deception and how this can lead to tunnel vision and...