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Anxiety

Anxiety is a factor that has been shown to affect the accuracy of eye-witness testimony.Loftus proposed the ‘weapon focus effect’, which suggests that the anxiety caused as a result of witnessing a weapon focuses the attention away from potential perpetrators and reduces the accuracy of eyewitness testimony.

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