APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
The Influence of Ordered Questions on Susceptibility to Misinformation
- Robert Michael
University of Louisiana at Lafayette - Maryanne Garry
the University of Waikato
Abstract
We recently found that changing the order of questions put to eyewitnesses hijacks their confidence. Does that contaminated confidence make eyewitnesses less critical of misleading information? Subjects watched a simulated crime and then took a memory test featuring ordered questions and misinformation. The results raise questions for eyewitness interviewing procedures.
Criminal Justice