Eye Witness Testimoney Key Study: Loftus and Palmer, Misleading Information

Loftus and Palmer (1974): THE ROLE OF MISLEADING INFORMATION

Aim: To see whether post-event information could alter a participant's memory of an event before it was stored in the LTM.

Sample: 3 groups watched the same video of a car crash (different affect if in person).

• Group 1 were asked "about how fast were the cars…