COULD YOU IDENTIFY A CRIMINAL? IT’S HARDER THAN YOU THINK

If you witnessed someone committing a crime, how confident would you be that you could correctly identify that person later on? As it turns out, studies consistently reveal that we tend to overestimate our ability to recall past events accurately and recognise people we think we have seen before.

News - South China Morning Post reports that if you witnessed someone committing a crime, how confident would you be that you could correctly identify that person later on?

The report adds: As it turns out, studies consistently reveal that we tend to overestimate our ability to recall past events accurately and recognise people we think we have seen before.

A 2011 United States study showed that a majority of participants (63 per cent) believe that human memory works like a video recording.

This report is covered across the current DAMMNEWS feeds. The most useful way to read a developing report is to separate the confirmed detail from early claims, then follow the next named source or decision.

This is a developing report. DAMMNEWS will surface related coverage as closely matched reporting enters the live cache.

DAMMNEWS RSS BRIEFING — generated locally from the available News - South China Morning Post headline and RSS excerpt. It is not a summary of the full source article.