Dr. Alan Castel

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1,246 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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I can remember the smell.

I can remember the weather.

And sometimes that can be accurate.

But a lot of research shows that sometimes we misremember these things.

And some of these classic cases, unfortunately, now that there's DNA evidence, you can determine that maybe they got the wrong person.

And when that happens, you want to look back and say, how could that happen?

And some of it comes down to faulty eyewitness identification.

And these are not cases where people are lying or intentionally changing things, but they'll identify someone.

They'll say, that's the person.

And as a result of identifying that person in a lineup,

that person then replaces what they actually saw.

So our memory can be contaminated, just like any form of evidence could be contaminated.

And then when you replay it again, you're replaying the person you identified, not the person you actually saw.

Yeah.

And and this is, you know, one of the most famous cases, Ronald Cotton case where really horrible event happened.

And the woman made a point of trying to remember her attacker.

So it wasn't just she got a quick glance, but she had a long interaction with him and a traumatic event.

And she said, if I survive this, I wanna remember his face so I can identify him later.

So this is like the perfect situation where your memory should be sharp.

And it was cross race identification, which we know is not as reliable as identifying someone of your own race.

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