The new science of eyewitness memory

Name: The new science of eyewitness memory
Uploaded: 2026-02-03T15:36:14Z
Duration: 17 min 23 s
Description: We've built a legal system that distrusts eyewitness memory — backed by cautionary science and high-profile exonerations. John Wixted, a leading psychology researcher, challenges this conventional wisdom with a counterintuitive finding: the problem might not be memory itself but how (and when) courts test it.

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John Wixted |

TEDxUCSanDiego

• May 2025

We've built a legal system that distrusts eyewitness memory — backed by cautionary science and high-profile exonerations. John Wixted, a leading psychology researcher, challenges this conventional wisdom with a counterintuitive finding: the problem might not be memory itself but how (and when) courts test it.