Talk:Issues in Interdisciplinarity 2018-19/Truth in memory: the reliability of eyewitness testimony

Introduction
Living in a “post-truth” society, where objectivity is overruled by emotions and personal belief when shaping public opinion, evidence-based truth seems to be endangered. Our society is dominated by individual truths in the form of shared experiences through social media. Those individual truths, due to the limits of personal judgements, are only hypotheses based on generalisation from personal experience and lack of solid proof. However, memory, as a representative of individual truth, is widely used as witness testimonies in courtrooms to supply the application of law, an evidence-based truth system.

ideas for sociology part
1.In this link there is an studies shows that racial bias did not have influence on eyewitnesses, which could be used as a counter argument. I will summarize that later https://www-tandfonline-com.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/doi/pdf/10.1080/00224545.1980.9924244?needAccess=true

2.This one is an experiment showing that the witness's opinion is influenced by co-witness, which they called it a social influence. But I am not sure about this since it is not a crime-witness. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01289/full

I personally do not think that we have to emphasise on crime (meaning murder), as eye-witness testimonies are used for almost every case. Hence, it wouldn't really matter if it's crime related or not. Furthermore, I know of a study that shows that people are influenced by the words used when something is described, in courtroom, for example, this can mean that if the layer uses a certain word it will trigger a certain reaction from the witness. I was also thinking about moving the study about the police line-up into the sociology category, as it talks about how environmental settings influence a memory --Malinabodea (discuss • contribs) 19:43, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Discussion about the structure
As Sociology also plays an important role in memory influence for eye-witnesses, we were thinking to switching the Trauma paragraph into a Sociology one; in order for the page to be more interdisciplinary. However, removing the Trauma paragraph would mean to remove the neuroscience (and medicine) aspect of the issue. --Malinabodea (discuss • contribs) 17:13, 8 December 2018 (UTC)