Project description
Exploring culture-dependent variables in eyewitness memory
Living in a globalised society entails that eyewitnesses of serious crimes regularly provide testimony in cross-cultural settings. What happens when police investigators interview eyewitnesses from a different cultural background? How do different cultural groups encode, store and retrieve memories, and how are memory reports evaluated in immigration contexts? What can be said about the frequency, nature and legal consequences of culture-dependent variables in international criminal cases? The EU-funded WEIRD WITNESSES project aspires to answer these questions, to develop a culturally modulated theory of eyewitness memory and to design and test evidence-based interview guidelines. To achieve these goals, the project aims to integrate analyses of video, document and experimental data.
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ERC-STG - Starting Grant
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1081 HV Amsterdam
Netherlands
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.