Citation

Sutherland R, Hayne H. Appl. Cogn. Psychol. 2001; 15(3): 249-263.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/acp.700

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The present experiment examined the conditions under which adults' reports of an event are influenced by information encountered after the event occurred. Adults were exposed to neutral, leading, and misleading postevent information about a target event 24 hours after that event. Twenty-four hours after exposure to postevent information, participants were first asked a general, open-ended question (free recall test procedure) and were then asked a series of specific questions. Some participants were asked to select their response from two possible alternatives (recognition test procedure) and some participants were required to generate their own answers to the same questions (directed recall test procedure). The nature of the original information, the nature of the postevent information, and the specificity of the questioning procedure influenced the number of correct responses and the number of misleading errors that participants made. These findings have important implications for interviewing adult witnesses. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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