According to Psychology and Your Life by Robert S. Feldman, is eyewitness testimony reliable in the court of law?

Eyewitness testimony is one of the most important forms of evidence in a court of law, but how reliable is it? According to Psychology and Your Life by Robert S. Feldman, the accuracy rates for eyewitness accounts vary greatly depending on any number of factors such as lighting conditions, distance from the event, length of time since the incident occurred, and more. It has also been noted that people are often prone to memory distortion due to what psychologists refer to as “post-event information” (Feldman, 2017). This means that witnesses may be influenced by dialogues with other witnesses or media reports which can lead them to make inaccurate statements about an event (Feldman, 2017).