APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

The Influence of Ordered Questions on Susceptibility to Misinformation

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Cognitive

  • 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

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