Eyewitness identification: Accuracy of individual vs. composite recollections of a crime

Abstract

Individual eyewitness recall reports were gathered from witnesses who were later put into groups to discuss and reach a consensus on a description of a simulated crime they had witnessed. Groups gave more complete reports but at the price of a significant increase in errors of commission (the fabrication of details under group pressure). © 1976, The Psychonomic Society, Inc.. All rights reserved.