Suggestive questions reduce the accuracy of adults’ reports about one episode of a repeated event

Witnesses often need to describe individual episodes of repeated crimes, such as family violence. Suggestive questions containing incorrect information reduce the accuracy of adults’ reports of single events; in the current experiment, we examined the effects of suggestive questions on adults’ repor...

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Authors: Sharman, Stefanie J. (Author) ; Danby, Meaghan C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: Psychology, crime & law
Year: 2024, Volume: 30, Issue: 8, Pages: 917–936
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
misinformation
question-type
source monitoring
suggestive questions
Repeated events