Münsterberg, Hugo. (1908). On the Witness Stand. New York: McClure Company.

For this book report, I decided to read Hugo Münsterberg's On the Witness Stand. This book contains essays on psychology and crime and eyewitness testimony. Today this book is used as a reference for many issues in forensic psychology. For this report, I focused on two chapters of the book: Illusions and the Memory of the Witness. I am going to first summarize the two chapters I read then talk about what was going on at the time this book was written. I will then report some of the research in the book, and finish with my opinion on how this book has contributed to the literature and how it relates to the current knowledge of forensic psychology.
Illusions
The chapter on illusions starts out with a couple different scenarios in which Münsterberg describes how witnesses viewed what was going on. In the first scenario, he talked of an automobile accident and in which two individuals......

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