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Exploring the influence of gender and post-event information on memory for suspects Rennie, Erin

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The goal of this thesis was to investigate factors that influence eyewitnesses' memories for suspects. To investigate memory for suspects, I conducted two experiments. In Chapter 2, I report a study that focused on the influence of subject and suspect gender on witnesses' perceptions of and memories for suspects. In Chapter 3, I report a study that focused on the influence of post-event descriptions of suspects on witnesses' memories for suspects. Together, these studies revealed that women are better than men at remembering male and female suspects. In addition, women are especially good at remembering suspect's clothing. These findings are a first step towards understanding eyewitness memory for suspects.

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Title	Exploring the influence of gender and post-event information on memory for suspects
Creator	Rennie, Erin
Publisher	University of British Columbia
Date Issued	2002
Description	The goal of this thesis was to investigate factors that influence eyewitnesses' memories for suspects. To investigate memory for suspects, I conducted two experiments. In Chapter 2, I report a study that focused on the influence of subject and suspect gender on witnesses' perceptions of and memories for suspects. In Chapter 3, I report a study that focused on the influence of post-event descriptions of suspects on witnesses' memories for suspects. Together, these studies revealed that women are better than men at remembering male and female suspects. In addition, women are especially good at remembering suspect's clothing. These findings are a first step towards understanding eyewitness memory for suspects.
Extent	4192554 bytes
Genre	Thesis/Dissertation
Type	Text
File Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
Date Available	2009-09-30
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
DOI	10.14288/1.0090688
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13451
Degree	Master of Arts - MA
Program	Psychology
Affiliation	Arts, Faculty of; Psychology, Department of
Degree Grantor	University of British Columbia
Graduation Date	2002-11
Campus	UBCV
Scholarly Level	Graduate
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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