John Wixted
Memory scientist and psychology researcher who studies eyewitness memory and its implications for the legal system, presenting research on when eyewitness identification is reliable.
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Mar 20, 2026 • 50min
How does your brain perceive the world?
Francesca Hoagie, a relationship coach who teaches flirting as a skill, John Wixted, a memory researcher who studies eyewitness reliability, and Alex Rosenthal, TED editorial director who speaks about aphantasia. They explore how mental imagery varies, why confident memories can be wrong, and how small social cues shape connection. Short, surprising takes on perception, memory, and everyday chemistry.
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Feb 16, 2026 • 19min
The new science of eyewitness memory | John Wixted
John Wixted, a memory scientist who studies eyewitness ID and legal implications, challenges the idea that memory is usually unreliable. He argues for testing memory early and explains fair photo-lineup practices. He also discusses when initial confident IDs or lineup rejections can be trustworthy and why some convictions went wrong when early tests were ignored.
