Research on leading questions

Loftus and Palmer Procedure - 45 ppts, watched a video of car accidents. Then they asked a critical question(leading), ppts were asked “How fast were the cars when they ___ each other” and used different verbs of different severity. contacted, hit, bumped, collided, smashed Results - The softer word contacted resulted in a slower speed than smashed, the leading question biased the eyewitness