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Asking Children to Talk About Abuse: Can Research Help Improve Police Interviewer Skills?

... – what caused so many children to report these apparently false claims? Several factors, such as the use of highly suggestive ... because these question types draw primarily on recall-based memory processes. That is, the questions encourage the child to actively search ... / more

Improving the Disclosure of Information in an Investigative Interview: Rapport building and the Physical Environment

... in prison based on confessions that were later proved to be false. Prior to falsely confessing, the juveniles were subject to stressful and ... novel experimental paradigm. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 2013 Jun 1;2(2):83-8. [9] Evans JR, Meissner CA, ... / more

Fake Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Costs Real Money

... of malingering. These types of tests consist of simple memory or perception tasks that are combined with a two–alternative, ... PVTs have their limitations. There is, indeed, the risk of false positives (classifying genuine patients as malingerers), but that should ... / more

Remembering what never occurred? Children’s false memories for repeated experiences

“Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.” ... interviewee to form memories of non-experienced events [i.e. false memories; 7 ]. Lab studies have shown that people can create rich and compelling false memories, even for highly negative events. In legal cases, these events ... / more

The Effect of Acute Stress on Memory: How It Helps and How It Hurts

... review paper examines the impact that acute stress has on memory formation and retrieval by highlighting the ways that stress can help ... T., Otgaar, H., Candel, I., & Wolf, O. T. (2008). True or false? Memory is differentially affected by stress-induced cortisol elevations ... / more

Can We Believe in Our Own Lies?

... eventually boils down to the issue of whether lying affects memory. ­­­­­­­This is particularly relevant in the legal arena, where ... we will focus on how each deceptive strategy (i.e., false denials , feigned amnesia, and fabrication ) can influence memory ... / more

Are Victim or Eyewitness Statements Credible? Several Ways to Check Them

... sentenced to between 7 and 11 years. [1] However, memory scholars argued that the children’s testimonies might have been false because of suggestive interviewing techniques by the children’s mothers ... / more

Learning styles: Why they don't exist but still persist

... finding of cognitive psychology is that most of the memory content is stored completely independently of any sensory modality ... their supposed sensory preferences. First, they may develop false theories about themselves and their learning behaviors that ultimately ... / more