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Doing right by the eyewitness evidence: a response to Berkowitz et al
John T Wixted1, Laura Mickes2, Chris R Brewin3
1Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, USA.
Memory (Hove, England)
|July 1, 2021
Abstract:
Berkowitz et al. (Berkowitz, S. R., Garrett, B. L., Fenn, K. M., & Loftus, E. F. (2020). Convicting with confidence? Why we should not over-rely on eyewitness confidence. Memory. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1849308) attribute to us the claim that "confidence trumps all", and the few out-of-context quotations they selected can certainly be used to create that false impression. However, it is easily disproved, and we do so here. The notion that "confidence trumps all" is the mistake that the jurors made in the DNA exoneration cases, not a position that we have ever advocated.