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How Can an Eyewitness Be Completely Confident—and Completely Wrong?

How Can an Eyewitness Be Completely Confident—and Completely Wrong?

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Summary
 A witness points across the courtroom and says, “That’s the person I saw.” They aren’t hesitant; they’re absolutely certain. Yet psychological research demonstrates that confidence and accuracy are not interchangeable. Memory is reconstructed rather than simply replayed, and information encountered after an event can alter what people later remember. This episode examines why sincere eyewitnesses can remember events that did not happen exactly as they recall them.
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