Stress, Interviewer Support, and Children's Eyewitness Identification Accuracy

Few studies have investigated how stress affects eyewitness identification capabilities across development, and no studies have investigated whether retrieval context in conjunction with stress affects accuracy. In this study, one hundred fifty-nine 7- to 8- and 12- to 14-year-olds completed a high-...

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Published in:Child development 2014-05, Vol.85 (3), p.1292-1305
Main Authors: Rush, Elizabeth B., Quas, Jodi A., Yim, Ilona S., Nikolayev, Mariya, Clark, Steven E., Larson, Rakel P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Adolescent
Adolescents
Adults
Age groups
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Development
Children
Children & youth
Cognitive Ability
Decision Making
Developmental psychology
Developmental Stages
EMPIRICAL ARTICLES
Eyewitness identification
Eyewitnesses
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Identification
Interpersonal Relations
Interviewers
Interviews
Lineups
Male
Memory
Memory recall
Mental Recall - physiology
Mental stress
Mnemonics
Participant observation
Photography
Police lineups
Psychological stress
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Recall
Recall (Psychology)
Retrieval
Stress
Stress Variables
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Suggestibility
Witnesses
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Summary:Few studies have investigated how stress affects eyewitness identification capabilities across development, and no studies have investigated whether retrieval context in conjunction with stress affects accuracy. In this study, one hundred fifty-nine 7- to 8- and 12- to 14-year-olds completed a high- or low-stress laboratory protocol during which they interacted with a confederate. Two weeks later, they attempted to identify the confederate in a photographic lineup. The lineup administrator behaved in either a supportive or a nonsupportive manner. Participants who experienced the high-stress event and were questioned by a supportive interviewer were most accurate in rejecting target-absent lineups. Results have implications for debates about effects of stress on eyewitness recall, how best to elicit accurate identifications in children, and developmental changes in episodic mnemonic processes.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/cdev.12177