Search results for false convictions:
Exonerations correct only a small fraction of false convictions
Jan 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Criminal justice scholars often say that the true number of innocent people convicted of crimes is unknown—in fact, unknowable. A new University of Michigan study challenges that belief in one important context.
New Cortex Study Uncovers How We Recognize What is True and What is False
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 17, 2009 |
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A recent neuroimaging study reveals that the ability to distinguish true from false in our daily lives involves two distinct processes. Previous research relied heavily on the premise that true and false statements are both ...
Research suggests that children's memory may be more reliable than adults' in court cases
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 06, 2008 |
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The U.S. legal system has long assumed that all testimony is not equally credible, that some witnesses are more reliable than others. In tough cases with child witnesses, it assumes adult witnesses to be more ...
Witness for the prosecution? The effect of confessions on eyewitness testimony
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 28, 2009 |
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What is it with false confession? It seems crazy on the face of it, to take the blame for a crime you didn't commit. Yet experts have found that while some innocent confessors are mentally disturbed attention seekers, or ...
Glitch in antivirus software troubles PC users
Jul 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Antivirus software cuts two ways. It's great at blocking known viruses, but it can sometimes misfire, mistakenly flagging clean files as malicious. That sends a computer into a tailspin trying to clean up stuff that's ...
Wikipedia testing new method to curb false info
Aug 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Wikipedia says it is testing a new method for curbing false information on pages devoted to individual people.
Do you remember what you did on March 13, 1985?
May 13, 2009 |
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If somebody asks you "Do you remember what you did on March 13, 1985?" you are very likely to answer "I don't know", even if your memory is excellent.
Sleep helps reduce errors in memory, research suggests (w/ Video)
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sleep may reduce mistakes in memory, according to a first-of-its-kind study led by a cognitive neuroscientist at Michigan State University.
The Medical Minute: A true or false quiz on vaccines
Aug 06, 2009 |
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True or false?
Contribution of clinical breast examination to breast cancer screening
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Breast cancer detection rates and sensitivity were higher, but so were false-positive rates, among mammography centers that offered clinical breast examination in addition to mammography, according to new study published ...
Brain difference in psychopaths identified
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Professor Declan Murphy and colleagues Dr Michael Craig and Dr Marco Catani from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London have found differences in the brain which may provide a biological explanation ...
Could Widely Used Rapid Influenza Tests Pose A Dangerous Public Health Risk?
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Rapid influenza diagnostic tests used in doctors' offices, hospitals and medical laboratories to detect H1N1 are virtually useless and could pose a significant danger to public health, according to a Loyola ...
For many, mammography every other year has benefits of annual screening, but less harm
Nov 17, 2009 |
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A comprehensive analysis of various mammography screening schedules suggests that biennial (every two years) screening of average risk women between the ages of 50 and 74 achieves most of the benefits of annual screening, ...
EKG can show false positive readings for diagnosing heart condition
Nov 16, 2009 |
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The electrical measurements on the electrocardiogram can often mislead physicians in diagnosing the heart condition left ventricular hypertrophy, causing other screening tests to be ordered before a definitive conclusion ...
Videotaped confessions can create bias against suspect, study finds
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 13, 2007 |
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Police often videotape interrogations of suspects for use in criminal trials. Video confessions that focus exclusively on the suspect, however, can bias judges and law enforcement officers to consider the suspect’s ...
