Matthew Gerrie
Matthew Gerrie received his PhD in Psychology in 2007 from Victoria University for examining false memories for events. He is now a research fellow in the School of Psychology at Victoria, and manager of the Innocence Project New Zealand. Innocence Projects have been established worldwide to investigate possible cases of wrongful conviction. In 2008, Matthew was awarded a Marsden Grant to study how eyewitnesses choose faces from lineups. In 2009, he won the 'Science in Our Society' category of the MacDiarmid Young Scientists of the Year Awards for his work on eyewitness identifications.
Matthew Gerrie
Eyewitness testimony is commonly regarded as very high quality evidence. But recent research has shown there are many ways memories of events can become contaminated. This article is based on a ... (1298 words)
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