Abstract The US Department of Justice released the first national guide for collecting and
preserving eyewitness evidence in October 1999. Scientific psychology played a large role …

Verbal overshadowing describes the phenomenon in which verbalisation negatively affects
performance on a task related to the verbalised material. Within the verbal overshadowing …

Abstract The Cognitive Interview (CI) is a well-established protocol for interviewing
witnesses. The current article presents a study space analysis of laboratory studies of the CI …

Interference provides an account of one of the most basic problems in the science of
memory: forgetting. Historically, theories of this process were shaped by models of …

Trying to remember something now typically improves your ability to remember it later.
However, after watching a video of a simulated bank robbery, participants who verbally …

When considered in the context of prior research, the articles in this special issue on verbal
overshadowing largely support the contention that verbalization can induce a processing …

Recognition performance is impaired when people are required to provide a verbal
description of a complex stimulus (ie, verbal-overshadowing effect), such as the face of the …

Eyewitness identifications play an important role in many police investigations and
courtroom decisions. Identification decision accuracy is shaped not only by the quality of a …

The reactive effects of verbal overshadowing are discussed within Ericsson and Simon's
(1980, 1984/1993) theoretical framework, which guided the design of procedures that elicit …

Despite the obvious appeal of television police shows, where attractive investigators and
their white-smocked laboratory colleagues solve crimes by conducting high-tech computer …