Eyewitnesses can be an accurate tool in connecting suspects to crimes if the witnesses are confident in their earliest testimony, according to a UC San Diego study published Monday. Psychology professor John Wixted and his co-authors examined 348 real-life photo lineups administered by police in Houston in 2013. They found the more confident an eyewitness was in her first identification of a suspect, the more accurate the identification. That contradicts some earlier studies that found little to no link between witness confidence and identification accuracy. Wixted said those studies were >>>

I must be hanging around in the wrong circles.There I’ve been for much of the past 10 years, either studying a Masters in sport psychology or practising in the field and I’ve never paid a moment’s attention to the works of a Deepak Chopra. Prior to a column by Joe Brolly last Sunday in a supposedly reputable newspaper, the only other time I’d encountered the man’s name in an article was reading about the Kobe Bryant documentary Muse released earlier this year which was filmed by Chopra’s son, Gotham. And yet, according to Joe, Chopra Senior is “the doyen” of “absurd self-help >>>