Testifying with confidence

  • Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
  • March 1999,
  • 27
  • (1)
  • 127-131;

Abstract

Credibility is usually accorded witnesses who testify with certainty. There is also the widely held belief that stress creates an indelible picture on the mind. The experimental studies and decisions by the courts involving these beliefs are set out.

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