Baseline Paper Series
The RSD Psychology Evidence Group’s Baseline Papers will present key psychology research findings for use in refugee hearings. The Series’ 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 1: Memory for Time
Decision-makers often identify as a reason to doubt a claimant’s 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 1: Memory for Time – coming soon – will help decision-makers to recognize when incompleteness and inconsistency are a normal part of human autobiographical memory for temporal information.
Coming Soon