Eyewitness
noun
A person who has seen something happen, especially a crime or accident.
The police found an eyewitness to the robbery, who could identify the criminal.
Often appears as...
- eyewitness account
- eyewitness testimony
noun
A person who has seen something happen, especially a crime or accident.
The police found an eyewitness to the robbery, who could identify the criminal.
Often appears as...
- eyewitness account
- eyewitness testimony
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Witness Credibility
An eyewitness's reliability can influence how much people believe what they say.
The defense questioned the eyewitness's credibility, citing poor lighting during the incident.
Pro Tip 2/3Immediate Presence
An eyewitness must have been present at the event to provide firsthand information.
Only an eyewitness can give a detailed description of the getaway car.
Pro Tip 3/3Legal Context
In legal situations, 'eyewitness' implies the person may testify in court.
The prosecution's case relied heavily on the eyewitness's court testimony.
Pro Tip 1/3Witness Credibility
An eyewitness's reliability can influence how much people believe what they say.
The defense questioned the eyewitness's credibility, citing poor lighting during the incident.
Pro Tip 2/3Immediate Presence
An eyewitness must have been present at the event to provide firsthand information.
Only an eyewitness can give a detailed description of the getaway car.
Pro Tip 3/3Legal Context
In legal situations, 'eyewitness' implies the person may testify in court.
The prosecution's case relied heavily on the eyewitness's court testimony.
Pro Tip 1/3Witness Credibility
An eyewitness's reliability can influence how much people believe what they say.
The defense questioned the eyewitness's credibility, citing poor lighting during the incident.
Pro Tip 2/3Immediate Presence
An eyewitness must have been present at the event to provide firsthand information.
Only an eyewitness can give a detailed description of the getaway car.
Pro Tip 3/3Legal Context
In legal situations, 'eyewitness' implies the person may testify in court.
The prosecution's case relied heavily on the eyewitness's court testimony.
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A lesson on looking PIPE...
was called to the crime scene, it was a boating fatality, and the eyewitness told this detective that the boat had flipped over and the occupant had drowned underneath. Now, instinctively, crime scene investigators look for what is apparent, but this detective did something different. He looked for what wasn't there, which is harder to do. And he raised the
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Are all of your memories...
All of these fallibilities of memory can have real-world impacts. If police interrogations use leading questions with eye witnesses or suspects, suggestibility could result in incorrect identifications or unreliable confessions. Even in the absence of leading questions, misattribution can lead to inaccurate eyewitness testimony.
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How language shapes the...
That means language can shape how you're thinking about anything that can be named by a noun. That's a lot of stuff. And finally, I gave you an example of how language can shape things that have personal weight to us -- ideas like blame and punishment or eyewitness memory. These are important things in our daily lives.
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Can we edit memories? PIPE...
that's not to say that it's straightforward or without controversy. Is it ethical to destroy memories? What about things like eyewitness testimony? What if you can't give someone Propranolol because it would interfere with other medicines that they're taking? Well, with respect to ethics and eyewitness testimony,
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Killer whale society PIPE...
whales flanking and driving others will periodically bite onto the tail flukes of the blue weighing him down further and exhausting him also while it is difficult to discern from this footage eyewitness is indicated that still other whales were constantly plunging underneath the big blue whale preventing
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Scott Fraser: The...
It's called reconstructed memories. It happens to us in all the aspects of our life, all the time. It was those two considerations, among others -- reconstructed memory, the fact about the eyewitness fallibility -- that was part of the instigation for a group of appeal attorneys
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How I help free innocent...
but my research had shown that single-witness identification cases are prone to error. It doesn't mean he was innocent, it just means we ought to look a little bit closer at those cases. So we did. And the facts were relatively simple. The eyewitness said she heard a shot,
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See No Evil PIPE National...
identification quite defined so I don't know what that muscle is but for your words on the statements of which part of the leg are you referring smooth or well at the outside of the thigh I guess anything that is said to an eyewitness by a police officer can affect their
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Loch Ness Sightings PIPE...
many in the scientific community have dismissed eyewitness reports as unreliable citing wildlife hoaxes and optical illusions
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Let's make history…by...
the last eyewitness account of an incredible act of athleticism, disobedience, courage, unread, unheard,
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A lesson on looking PIPE...
was called to the crime scene, it was a boating fatality, and the eyewitness told this detective that the boat had flipped over and the occupant had drowned underneath. Now, instinctively, crime scene investigators look for what is apparent, but this detective did something different. He looked for what wasn't there, which is harder to do. And he raised the
Video examples
Are all of your memories...
All of these fallibilities of memory can have real-world impacts. If police interrogations use leading questions with eye witnesses or suspects, suggestibility could result in incorrect identifications or unreliable confessions. Even in the absence of leading questions, misattribution can lead to inaccurate eyewitness testimony.
Video examples
How language shapes the...
That means language can shape how you're thinking about anything that can be named by a noun. That's a lot of stuff. And finally, I gave you an example of how language can shape things that have personal weight to us -- ideas like blame and punishment or eyewitness memory. These are important things in our daily lives.
Video examples
Can we edit memories? PIPE...
that's not to say that it's straightforward or without controversy. Is it ethical to destroy memories? What about things like eyewitness testimony? What if you can't give someone Propranolol because it would interfere with other medicines that they're taking? Well, with respect to ethics and eyewitness testimony,
Video examples
Killer whale society PIPE...
whales flanking and driving others will periodically bite onto the tail flukes of the blue weighing him down further and exhausting him also while it is difficult to discern from this footage eyewitness is indicated that still other whales were constantly plunging underneath the big blue whale preventing
Video examples
Scott Fraser: The...
It's called reconstructed memories. It happens to us in all the aspects of our life, all the time. It was those two considerations, among others -- reconstructed memory, the fact about the eyewitness fallibility -- that was part of the instigation for a group of appeal attorneys
Video examples
How I help free innocent...
but my research had shown that single-witness identification cases are prone to error. It doesn't mean he was innocent, it just means we ought to look a little bit closer at those cases. So we did. And the facts were relatively simple. The eyewitness said she heard a shot,
Video examples
See No Evil PIPE National...
identification quite defined so I don't know what that muscle is but for your words on the statements of which part of the leg are you referring smooth or well at the outside of the thigh I guess anything that is said to an eyewitness by a police officer can affect their
Video examples
Loch Ness Sightings PIPE...
many in the scientific community have dismissed eyewitness reports as unreliable citing wildlife hoaxes and optical illusions
Video examples
Let's make history…by...
the last eyewitness account of an incredible act of athleticism, disobedience, courage, unread, unheard,
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Romesh Ranganathan
British Comedian
We are entering an age where people can claim to know more about what really happened than the people who were there. Where people will dismiss eyewitness accounts, on the basis of their gut feelings; where they will refute scientific discoveries because the scientist just doesn't look trustworthy.
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John Grisham
American Writer
Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.
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Terry Hayes
English Writer
I've read and traveled a lot in the Middle East, and I built on eyewitness accounts of horrific executions that would shape a boy's character and beliefs if he watched his father die that way. These are the stuff of which nightmares are made.
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Molly Ivins
American Journalist
I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a reporter - nothing like interviewing all four eyewitnesses to an automobile accident and then trying to write an accurate account of what happened.
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John Shelby Spong
American Clergyman
Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of the crucifixion found in Mark's gospel and discover that it is not based on eyewitness testimony at all.
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Jeffrey Kluger
American Writer
When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.
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Harvey Fierstein
American Actor
Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.
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Peter Bergen
American Journalist
Hersh's account of the bin Laden raid is a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient facts, and simple common sense.
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Jean Shepherd
American Writer
I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
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Romesh Ranganathan
British Comedian
We are entering an age where people can claim to know more about what really happened than the people who were there. Where people will dismiss eyewitness accounts, on the basis of their gut feelings; where they will refute scientific discoveries because the scientist just doesn't look trustworthy.
Quote examples
John Grisham
American Writer
Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.
Quote examples
Terry Hayes
English Writer
I've read and traveled a lot in the Middle East, and I built on eyewitness accounts of horrific executions that would shape a boy's character and beliefs if he watched his father die that way. These are the stuff of which nightmares are made.
Quote examples
Molly Ivins
American Journalist
I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a reporter - nothing like interviewing all four eyewitnesses to an automobile accident and then trying to write an accurate account of what happened.
Quote examples
John Shelby Spong
American Clergyman
Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of the crucifixion found in Mark's gospel and discover that it is not based on eyewitness testimony at all.
Quote examples
Jeffrey Kluger
American Writer
When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.
Quote examples
Harvey Fierstein
American Actor
Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.
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Peter Bergen
American Journalist
Hersh's account of the bin Laden raid is a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient facts, and simple common sense.
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Jean Shepherd
American Writer
I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
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