APS

2023 APS Annual Convention · 2023

Suggestive Questioning of Children in CSA Interviews: Yield Practices Less Likely to Impact Veracity Judgments Than Shift Practices

Washington, DC · May 2023

Poster · Social

  • Kori Meyer
    University of North Carolina WIlmington
  • Savannah Reeves
    UNCW
  • Annabella White
    University of North Carolina Wilmington
  • Bryan Barnes
    University of North Carolina Wilmington
  • Bryan Myers
    The University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Abstract

Vulnerability to suggestion involves yielding or shifting based on the type of suggestive practice employed. In a 3 (Suggestion: control/yield/shift) x 2 (Modality: transcript/video) design, both shift and yield questioning produced differences in suggestiveness ratings, but only shift practices led to significant effects on veracity ratings.

Criminal Justice

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