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PMID: 23030818 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Adults' evaluations of children's reports can determine whether legal proceedings are undertaken and whether they ultimately lead to justice. The current study involved 92 undergraduates and 35 laypersons who viewed and evaluated videotaped interviews of 3- and 5-year-olds providing true or false memory reports. The children's reports fell into the following categories based on a 2 (event type: true vs. false) × 2 (child report: assent vs. denial) factorial design: accurate reports, false reports, accurate denials, and false denials. Results revealed that adults were generally better able to correctly judge accurate reports, accurate denials, and false reports compared with false denials: For false denials, adults were, on average, "confident" that the event had not occurred, even though the event had in fact been experienced. Participant age predicted performance. These findings underscore the greater difficulty adults have in evaluating young children's false denials compared with other types of reports. Implications for law-related situations in which adults are called upon to evaluate children's statements are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). |
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Stephanie D Block; Donna Shestowsky; Daisy A Segovia; Gail S Goodman; Jennifer M Schaaf; Kristen Weede Alexander |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2011-11-21 |
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Title: Law and human behavior Volume: 36 ISSN: 1573-661X ISO Abbreviation: Law Hum Behav Publication Date: 2012 Oct |
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Created Date: 2012-10-03 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7801255 Medline TA: Law Hum Behav Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 365-74 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Psychology, University of California-Davis. |
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