What Makes Recovered-Memory Testimony Compelling to Jurors?

TitleWhat Makes Recovered-Memory Testimony Compelling to Jurors?
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2001
AuthorsBarbara L. Coleman, Michael J. Stevens, Glenn D. Reeder
JournalLaw & Human Behavior (Springer Science & Business Media B.V.)
Volume25
Issue4
Pagination317
ISSN01477307
Abstract

Discusses the research about how jurors arrive at verdicts in cases involving the recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. Investigation of mock jurors' reactions to the recovered-memory testimony of an alleged victim when a therapist intervened; Use of hypnosis, suggestion, or symptom management; How jurors viewed the victim's recovered-memory testimony as particularly accurate and credible, and favored the victim in their verdicts; Consideration of culturally formed expectancies about hypnosis.

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