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In this video, we explore how stress affects witness recall and what psychological science reveals about the reliability of eyewitness memory under pressure. Stress is almost always present during criminal events and legal testimony — but how does it actually influence what witnesses remember, forget, or distort?

Drawing from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and legal psychology, this video explains how stress impacts memory at different stages: encoding (when the event happens), consolidation (how it’s stored), and retrieval (when it’s recalled). We examine how stress hormones like cortisol influence the brain’s memory systems, including the hippocampus, amygdala, and prefrontal cortex.

You’ll learn:
• Why high stress can improve memory for central details but impair peripheral details
• How acute and chronic stress differently affect recall accuracy
• What the Yerkes-Dodson law tells us about stress and performance
• Why anxious witnesses can be more suggestible during interviews
• How interview techniques can either protect or distort witness memory

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