Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe
speaker
664 appearances
14 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2021
last heard 21 Jul
Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, in effect, this is just the start of the case for me.
As a boy, I was fascinated by Harry Price's investigation, and we really haven't started with that.
We've just touched the surface.
How can you explain three people sat around a table just like we are now and this cutlery has come flying around?
We would know instantly that it's one of us doing it.
They can hear it too.
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When you have multiple viewpoints, of course it lends more weight to an eyewitness testimony, but within forensic psychology, we're well aware of the concept of contagion, which is where a person influences the emotions or behavior of another person and can influence even their reporting of an event.
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It's not unheard of
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that somebody has an extreme reaction to what they've seen and everybody has a similar sort of reaction.
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OK, so how do you see that working here?
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This is being really hypothetical.
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But if, for example, you had somebody that was whispering in that room...
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effectively just whispering behind their hand.
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And then you get group conformity kicking in.
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So somebody says, that sounds like an Irish accent.
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I could imagine people in that sort of environment thinking, yeah, absolutely it is.
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It is Irish.
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I could explain that.
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I could even explain Ethel going, yes, that's my mother.
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I think the difficulty we've got is that there is an actual conversation.
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