Synopsis
Claudia Hammond meets Elizabeth Loftus, the psychologist whose research into eye witness testimony and the fallibility of memory changed how police and courts deal with witnesses.
- Programme: Mind Changers
- Episode: Elizabeth Loftus and Eye Witness Testimony
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Broadcast year: 2011
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology | How the mind works and processes information | Memory, eye witness testimony
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