Tag

eyewitness

Explore 4 cognitive biases related to this topic.

Cross-Race Effect

10 min read

The cross-race effect is the tendency for people to recognize and distinguish faces of their own racial group more accurately than faces of other racial groups.

Social Biases / Face perception and memory

/ Own-Race Bias

Suggestibility

5 min read

Incorporating misleading information into memory.

Memory Biases

/ Memory Suggestibility

False Memory

12 min read

False memory refers to the phenomenon of confidently recalling events that did not happen or remembering them differently from how they occurred.

Memory Biases / Memory distortion

/ Memory Illusion

Misinformation Effect

12 min read

The misinformation effect occurs when a person’s memory of an event is altered by post-event information, such as leading questions or misleading details.

Memory Biases / Post-event memory distortion

/ Post-Event Information Effect