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Title Memory and suggestibility in the forensic interview / edited by Mitchell Eisen, Jodi A. Quas, Gail S. Goodman
Published Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002

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Description xiii, 481 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series The LEA series in personality and clinical psychology
LEA series in personality and clinical psychology.
Contents I. General principles and basic processes -- 1. Processes affecting accuracy and distortion in memory : an overview -- 2. The development of memory : toward an understanding of children's testimony -- 3. False childhood memories and eyewitness memory errors -- 4. Coming to grips with children's suggestibility -- 5. Face identification : basic processes and developmental changes -- II. Stress, trauma and individual differences -- 6. Stress, trauma and memory -- 7.Memory for traumatic events in children and adults -- 8. Sources of fantastic elements in allegations of abuse by adults and children -- 9. Individual differences in adults' suggestibility and memory performance -- 10. What children bring to the interview context : individual differences in children's event reports -- III. Adults in the forensic interview context -- 11. The cognitive interview method to enhance eyewitness recall -- 12. Hypnosis and memory : implications for the courtroom and psychotherapy -- 13. Interrogative suggestibility and "memory work" -- Iv. Children in the forensic interview context -- 14. Questions and answers : the credibility of child witnesses in the context of specific questioned techniques -- 15. Children's suggestibility in the forensic context -- 16. The utility of anatomical dolls and drawings in child forensic interviews -- 17. Using a structured interview protocol to improve the quality of investigative interviews -- 18. The effects of social support on the accuracy of children's reports : implications for the forensic interview
Summary 'Memories are the ultimate foundation of testimony in legal settings ranging from criminal trials to divorce mediations and custody hearings. Yet the last decade has seen mounting evidence of various ways in which the accuracy of memories can be distorted on the one hand and enhanced on the other. This book offers a long-awaited comprehensive and balanced overview of what we now understand about children's and adults' eyewitness capabilities-and of the important practical and theoretical implications of this new understanding. The authors, leading clinicians and behavioral scientists with diverse training experiences and points of view, provide insight into the social, cognitive, developmental, and legal factors that affect the accuracy and quality of information obtained in forensic interviews.'--Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Witnesses -- Psychology.
Forensic hypnotism.
Child witnesses.
Eyewitness testimony
Memory in children.
Forensic psychology.
Recollection (Psychology)
Criminal psychology.
Criminal investigation.
Mental suggestion.
Police questioning.
Interviewing in law enforcement.
Memory.
Forensic Psychiatry.
Interview, Psychological.
Memory.
Suggestion.
Author Goodman, Gail S.
Eisen, Mitchell.
Quas, Jodi A.
ebrary, Inc.
LC no. 2000060978
ISBN 9780805830804 hardback alkaline paper
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