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Repeated Questions, Deception, and Children’s True and False Reports of Body Touch

Four- to 7-year-olds’ ability to answer repeated questions about body touch either honestly or dishonestly was examined. Children experienced a play event, during which one third of the children were touched innocuously. Two weeks later, they returned for a memory interview. Some children who had no...

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Published in:Child maltreatment 2007-02, Vol.12 (1), p.60-67
Main Authors: Quas, Jodi A., Davis, Elizabeth L., Goodman, Gail S., Myers, John E. B.
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description Four- to 7-year-olds’ ability to answer repeated questions about body touch either honestly or dishonestly was examined. Children experienced a play event, during which one third of the children were touched innocuously. Two weeks later, they returned for a memory interview. Some children who had not been touched were instructed to lie during the interview and say that they had been touched. Children so instructed were consistent in maintaining the lie but performed poorly when answering repeated questions unrelated to the lie. Children who were not touched and told the truth were accurate when answering repeated questions. Of note, children who had been touched and told the truth were the most inconsistent. Results call into question the common assumption that consistency is a useful indicator of veracity in children’s eyewitness accounts.
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Child
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Child, Preschool
Children
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Deception
Female
Humans
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Male
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Memory
Narration
Periodicity
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Truth
Truth Disclosure
Victimology
Witnesses
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