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Effects Of Child Age And Type Of Detail Reported On Credibility Of Child Abuse Allegations, Natalie R. Kulisek
Effects Of Child Age And Type Of Detail Reported On Credibility Of Child Abuse Allegations, Natalie R. Kulisek
Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
With repeated experiences, children’s reports of an event tend to contain fewer episodic, contextually embedded details and more inconsistencies. In one prior study, children who experienced a play event four times were rated by mock jurors as less accurate and less believable than children who experienced it once, although there was no difference in their actual accuracy (Connolly, Price, Lavoie, & Gordon, 2008). In the present study, 405 undergraduate students read one of four scenarios of a child sexual abuse allegation in a 2 (age: 4- or 10-years-old) by 2 (experience: single or multiple) factorial design. Overall, regardless of age, …
The Impact Of Sequential Lineups On Unconscious Transference: Does Knowing The Number Of Photos In The Lineup Matter?, Dominick J. Atkinson
The Impact Of Sequential Lineups On Unconscious Transference: Does Knowing The Number Of Photos In The Lineup Matter?, Dominick J. Atkinson
Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
Unconscious transference occurs when a witness misidentifies a familiar but innocent person from a lineup. In Ross, Atkinson, Rosenberg, Pica, and Pozullo (2014), the use of a sequential lineup procedure, in which faces are presented one at a time, drastically reduced the unconscious transference error, but at the cost of also reducing the rate of correct identifications. However, in that study, the participants were not told how many faces they would view in the sequential lineup. In the present study, participants viewed a video of a staged crime that did or did not contain a bystander who looked similar to …