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Weapon focus

Weapon focus is the concentration on a weapon by a witness of a crime and the subsequent inability to accurately remember other details of the crime. Weapon focus is a factor that heavily affects the reliability of eyewitness testimony. This effect involves a witness to a crime diverting their attention to the weapon the perpetrator is holding, thus…

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Reducing weapon focus and its impact on criminal cases

BystandersArmed robberyBank tellerCashierTheoretical
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Forensic psychologyPhenomenonCognitiveArousalEthical issues
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Causes of weapon focus

SchemaPillsbury Dough BoyYerkes-Dodson lawAmygdalaStimuli
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Differences in weapon focus effects

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Weapon focus

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Triples84
Avg. degree1.95
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has cause · 30
Weapon focus → Another, Attention, Being, Easterbrook's, Fawcett, For, From, Furthermore, Grafman, In, It, Johnson, Kerri, Loftus, Mansour, Meanwhile, Over, Pickel, Pillsbury Dough Boy, Research
has impact · 20
Weapon focus → Another, Black, Cronin, Eyewitness, However, If, Later, One, Pickel, Ratings, Ross, Sneyd, Specific, Stereotypes, The, These, They, This, Truelove, White
has effect · 9
Weapon focus → As, Black, Differences, Firstly, Her, It, People, Pickel, Researcher Kerri Pickel
related to Weapon focus effect on children · 8
Weapon focus → Adults, Again, At, In, One, Pickel, The, This
related to background · 6
Weapon focus → As, During, In, Johnson, Participants, Scott
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Weapon focus → automatic process, concentration on a weapon by a witness of a crime and the subsequent inability to accurately remember other details of the crime, factor that heavily affects the reliability of eyewitness testimony, unusualness of the situation

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weapon focus effect eyewitness memory attention testimony perpetrator object crime witness participants research gun situation study conducted expert studies man

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Weapon focusis aconcentration on a weapon by a witness of a crime and the subsequent inability to accurately remember other details of the crime0.90text
Weapon focusis afactor that heavily affects the reliability of eyewitness testimony0.90text
Weapon focusis aunusualness of the situation0.90text
Weapon focusis aautomatic process0.90text
genderinstance ofIt found that the exposure to firearms was associated with significantly better eyewitness descriptions especially regarding basic features0.80text
heightinstance ofIt found that the exposure to firearms was associated with significantly better eyewitness descriptions especially regarding basic features0.80text
buildinstance ofIt found that the exposure to firearms was associated with significantly better eyewitness descriptions especially regarding basic features0.80text
ageinstance ofIt found that the exposure to firearms was associated with significantly better eyewitness descriptions especially regarding basic features0.80text
and ethnicityinstance ofIt found that the exposure to firearms was associated with significantly better eyewitness descriptions especially regarding basic features0.80text
a walletinstance ofdemonstrated an effect comparable to weapon focus using a video in which a man approached a cashier and presented a whole raw chicken or miniature Pillsbury Dough Boy instead of…0.80text
a gun or knifeinstance ofcompared to unusual objects0.80text
Weapon focushas causeSince0.60section

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