Sometimes, police investigating a crime find that the only eyewitness they have is a child. That begs the question: Is there any difference between the eyewitness testimony of children and adults?
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30, 2009) — Research increasingly suggests that eyewitness testimony may not be as accurate as we would like it to be. A new study examining how ... Children's Memory May Be More Reliable Than Adults' In Court Cases (Mar. 17, 2008) — The US legal system has long assumed that all testimony is not equally credible,
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Study Calls into Question Credibility of Young Children's Testimony ... -- Preschoolers have difficulty distinguishing imagination from reality, particularly if asked about events some time after they occurred, which could have implications for eyewitness testimony, a researcher at Yale has found.
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The present study attempted to identify factors influencing the accuracy of young children's eyewitness testimony by comparing the effects of cognitive and ...
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psychological knowledge in evaluating children's eyewitness testimony. The present study addresses the child's cognitive capabilities in the eyewit- ...
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Karla J. Doepke, Angela L. Henderson, & Thomas S. Critchfield (2003). Social antecedents of children's eyewitness testimony: A single-subject experimental analysis. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 36, 459-463.
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Memon, A. and Vartoukian, R. (1996) The Effects of Repeated Questioning on Young Children's Eyewitness Testimony British Journal of Psychology, 87, 403-415...
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Children of five and seven years of age witnessed a staged-event and were then individually interviewed with a free recall test and closed and open-form questions, some of which ... Memon, Amina and Vartoukian, Rita (1996) The Effects of Repeated Questioning on Young Children's Eyewitness Testimony. [Journal (Paginated)]
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This chapter is a review of research investigating the effects of social support on children’s eyewitness memory and suggestibility in the context of a forensic interview. We consider the effects of social support provided both by an interviewer and by a child’s peers who may be present during an interview.
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PSYC 055 [006E]: Children's Eyewitness Testimony; Social & Behavioral Science/Other (SS) [GC Social Science]; Peter A. Ornstein; ... Children's testimony is sought regularly in cases that range from divorce and custody disputes in family courts to allegations of sexual abuse in criminal cases. But what is known about...
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