One Year Into the Presidency, The Future of Racial Justice and Opportunities to Get Involved in IP Clinic

Dialogue and details of opportunities to get involved in next year\u27s clinical program for the Innocence Project.https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/flyers-2017-2018/1020/thumbnail.jp

Innocence Project

https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/flyers-2021-2022/1029/thumbnail.jp

Mood-congruent false memories persist over time

In this study we examined the role of mood-congruency and retention interval on the false recognition of emotion laden items using the Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm. Previous research has shown a mood-congruent false memory enhancement during immediate recognition tasks. The present study examined the persistence of this effect following a one-week delay. Participants were placed in a negative or neutral mood, presented with negative-emotion and neutral-emotion DRM word lists, and administered with both immediate and delayed recognition tests. Results showed that a negative mood state increased remember judgments for negative-emotion critical lures, in comparison to neutral-emotion critical lures, on both immediate and delayed testing. These findings are discussed in relation to theories of spreading activation and emotion enhanced memory, with consideration of the applied forensic implications of such findings

2013 Year in Review

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The Innocence Quarterly [Spring 2013]

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The Innocence Quarterly [Spring 2007]

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A Conversation With Barry Scheck and Anthony Graves About Infinite Hope

https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/event-invitations-2018/1038/thumbnail.jp

Innocence Project Clinic Information Session

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The fallibility of memory in judicial processes: Lessons from the past and their modern consequences

The capability of adult and child witnesses to accurately recollect events from the past and provide reliable testimony has been hotly debated for more than one hundred years (Binet, 1900). Prominent legal cases of the 1980s and 1990s sparked lengthy debates and important research questions surrounding the fallibility and general reliability of memory. But what lessons have we learned, some forty years later, about the role of memory in the judicial system? In this review, we focus on what we now know about the consequences of the fallibility of memory for legal proceedings. We present a brief historical overview of false memories that focuses on three critical forensic areas that changed memory research: Children as eyewitnesses, historic sexual abuse, and eyewitness (mis)identification. We revisit some of the prominent trials of the 1980s and 1990s to not only consider the role false memories have played, but also to see how this has helped us understand memory today. Finally, we consider the way in which the research on memory (true and false) has been successfully integrated into some courtroom procedures