One of the earliest recorded examples of psychological evidence been presented in a court of law was in 1896 when Albert Von Schrenk-Notzing testified at the trial of a man accused of murdering three women.
Drawing on research into memory and suggestibility Schrenk-Notzing argued that pre-trial publicity meant that witnesses could not distinguish between what they actually saw and what had been reported in the press. A perceptual error coined retroactive memory falsification.
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