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March 29th, 2024

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'Nosewitness' Testimony: How Victims Can Use Smell To Identify Violent Criminals

Currently, victims of violent crimes must use visual memories to identify the criminal (known as the eyewitness lineup), but studies have shown that eyewitnesses actually show a decreased accuracy in recognizing culprits visually, perhaps due to the trauma associated with the event. If there was another way that humans could identify perpetrators of crimes — relying…

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