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eyewitness identification: general acceptance in the scientific community  

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  • This entry focuses on the degree to which experts and others are persuaded that each of a number of factors influences the accuracy of eyewitness identifications. Supreme Court cases, among them United States v. Amaral (1973) and Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals (1993), have opened avenues of research addressing how the influence of various factors on the judgments of eyewitnesses is perceived by different parties in the legal system. [Source: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law; Eyewitness Identification: General Acceptance in the Scientific Community]

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