RT Article
T1 Detecting children's false allegations and recantations of a crime
JF Psychology, crime & law
VO 24
IS 6
SP 652
OP 671
A1 Wyman, Joshua
A1 Lavoie, Jennifer 1985-
A1 Talwar, Victoria 1974-
A1 Foster, Ida
A1 Tong, Donia
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1736210750
AB This study examined adults’ abilities to detect the veracity of children's (ages 6-11) initial disclosures and their later recantations about a crime. Children (N = 32) were asked to make a false denial or a false accusation of an alleged theft, while some were asked to tell the truth. Afterwards, children recanted their initial statements in a second interview; thus, children who initially denied the theft accused a researcher of the transgression in the second interview, and vice-versa. Adult raters (ages 18-25; N = 108) watched both interviews and completed a questionnaire that required them to determine the veracity (i.e. whether the report was true or false) and credibility of the disclosure. Adults accurately detected the veracity of children's reports 53% of the time (55% of original reports, 50% of recantations). Raters were more accurate when detecting false denials than false accusations in the children's original and recanted reports. Despite being more difficult to detect, children's recanted denials that became accusations were rated as the least credible. Furthermore, self-reported level of experience with children and ratings confidence were not significant predictors of truth/lie detection accuracy.
K1 Allegations
K1 Child witnesses
K1 Deception detection
K1 Denials
K1 Interviewing
DO 10.1080/1068316X.2017.1402018