A Case Study of Witness Consistency and Memory Recovery Across Multiple Investigative Interviews

Summary Access to audio recordings of five interviews (Interviews 2–6), and to the interviewer's contemporaneous notes during an initial unrecorded interview, made it possible to assess consistency across repeated attempts by a 9‐year‐old to describe her older sister's abduction from their...

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Published in:Applied cognitive psychology 2012-01, Vol.26 (1), p.118-129
Main Authors: Orbach, Yael, Lamb, Michael E., La Rooy, David, Pipe, Margaret-Ellen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abduction
Accuracy
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child development
Children & youth
Developmental psychology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Interviewing
Memory
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Quality
Recording
Victims
Witnesses
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Summary:Summary Access to audio recordings of five interviews (Interviews 2–6), and to the interviewer's contemporaneous notes during an initial unrecorded interview, made it possible to assess consistency across repeated attempts by a 9‐year‐old to describe her older sister's abduction from their shared bedroom. Information provided in each of the interviews was systematically analysed to determine whether each unit of information was new, consistent (repeated) or contradictory in relation to earlier reported information and whether any informative detail provided in the witness' initial interview was subsequently omitted. In addition, the witness' accounts were compared with details provided by the victim upon her rescue. This case analysis is particularly informative in light of widespread professional concerns about the effects of repeated interviewing on the quality and accuracy of children's accounts of experienced events. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
ISSN:0888-4080
1099-0720
DOI:10.1002/acp.1803