Picking someone out of a lineup overwrites the memory of the face actually seen, so identification makes a witness more confident and less accurate at the same time.

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• Photographing a moment can weaken your memory of it, because the reason you took the picture was not to have to remember. ACAlan Castel13 Jul 2026
• Forming an impression very quickly leads to spending the time confirming it rather than collecting evidence, so a wrong first impression is unlikely to be corrected. DKDaniel Kahneman12 Oct 2019
• People in someone's professional network tend to forget about them unless reminded regularly. GBGibson Biddle15 Mar 2023
• Confidence in a memory is not evidence of its accuracy, and our sense of how our own memory works is systematically wrong. ACAlan Castel13 Jul 2026

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