Baseline Paper Series
The RSD Psychology Evidence Group鈥檚 Baseline Papers will present key psychology research findings for use in refugee hearings. The Series鈥� governing framework is grounded in the notion that, all else being equal, claimants should not be disbelieved because they thought or acted in a way that robust psychological research makes clear is unremarkable.
Baseline Paper Series 1: Memory for Time
Decision-makers often identify as a reason to doubt a claimant鈥檚 truthfulness the fact that the claimant cannot remember accurately or consistently the temporal information associated with events that they are describing: the time of day when an event occurred, or the day, month, season or year; whether one event occurred before or after another; how much time passed between events; how long an event lasted; or how often repeated events occurred. Baseline Paper Series 1: Memory for Time 鈥� coming soon 鈥� will help decision-makers to recognize when incompleteness and inconsistency are a normal part of human autobiographical memory for temporal information.
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