Eyewitness memory is not perfect. However, recent research suggests that eyewitnesses remember more about a witnessed event if they close their eyes during the interview. In the master thesis, we examined the effect of eye closure on recall of central and peripheral information, in the violent and nonviolent situation, via on-line platform. We designed an experiment in which adults, aged 18 to 30 years watched either a violent or non-violent type of video and later on answered the questions regarding central and peripheral information about the videos, with their eyes open or closed. We assumed that participants will provide more correct information and testimonial accuracy will be better when participants would answer with their eyes closed, moreover more central than peripheral information will be provided. No evidence was found for eye closure effect in both non-violent and violent situation, however the central information were better recalled than peripheral. Due to the special conditions of the study (on-line platform, videos without sound) and no decline in testimonial accuracy in eye closure condition, future studies are recommended to review the eye closure effect in different contexts.
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