Eyewitness ID Links

Dr. Gary Wells' website at Iowa State Dr. Wells has been the most prolific researcher in the field of eye-ID over the past 30 years, well known for his study or system and estimator variables, relative judgment, and much more. His website includes an extensive collection of scientific articles and other commentary on eyewitness science.

Roy Malpass's Eyewitness ID Research Lab Dr. Malpass is another leading researcher on eyewitness identification factors. His site includes extensive bibliographies of research on numerous topics.

Elizabeth Loftus' page at UC Irvine Prof. Elizabeth Loftus is a psychologist who has studied and written extensively on the malleability of human memory. Her books include Eyewitness Testimony, Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Witness, and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial, and The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memory and Allegations of Sexual Abuse.

Two of her articles are reproduced here Our changeable memories; legal and practical implications (March 2003) and Memory Faults and Fixes (Summer 2002) (PDF).

Prof. Loftus' U.C. Irvine and Univ. of Washington websites contain many more of her articles on memory.

NACDL's EyeID Resource page Eyewitness ID Reform Resources -- fact sheets, legislation, case law, etc.

The Innocence Project Resources on the Causes of Wrongful Conviction

Eyewitness ID Reform Blog The "most niche blog" yet named

Wikipedia on Eyewitness ID Detailed entry on eyewitness evidence and related scientific research