#personal-belief

#personal-belief

Eyewitness memory is not entirely reliable. This unreliability can derive from inherent limitations in the perception of criminal acts (including relative darkness, brevity of exposure, and occlusion of important actions by interposed objects; e.g., Sharps, 2022, 2024), and from limitations inherent in the nature of human memory itself, which tends to become reconfigured, with time, in the directions of gist, brevity, and personal belief (Bartlett, 1932).