The Way We Remember and Report: An Experiment Testing Cultural Differences in Eyewitness Memory

We will conduct a controlled eyewitness experiment. 32 asylum seekers from Sub-Saharan Africa (hereafter: ‘African participants’) and 32 Western European control participants (hereafter: ‘Western participants’) will witness an event on video. Participants will subsequently be interviewed to explore what aspects of the event are retrieved, how the event is reported, and how questions are answered. Finally, we will conduct lineups of persons and objects that were visible in the witnessed event. The objective of the lineups is to assess facial and object recognition.