Making children into competent witnesses
Reactions to the amicus brief In re Michaels
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12433992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael E Lamb (0000-0002-6792-3526, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, corresponding author), Kathleen J Sternberg, Phillip W Esplin |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 438-449 |
| Publication date | 1995-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychology Public Policy and Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1076-8971 • E-ISSN: 1939-1528 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/1076-8971.1.2.438 |
| OpenAlex | W2005462041 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 10 |
and Human DevelopmentIn their amicus brief, M. Bruck and S. J. Ceci (1993/1995) highlight the many ways inwhich children's competence and informativeness can be undercut by incompetentinvestigative procedures and interview techniques. In this article, the authors discussways in which skilled interviewers, with realistic goals regarding the amount and qualityof information that can be obtained from young informants, can instead enhance thequality of children's accounts. The discussion of these issues is informed by a review ofthe scholarly literatures on children's memory, communicative styles and skills, andsuggestibility, as well as by field research on the usefulness of different interviewstrategies
Political science · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Memory Processes and Influences · Psychology
Parenting evaluations for the court
Evaluation of a comprehensive interactive training system for investigative interviewers of children
Assessing the value of structured protocols for forensic interviews of alleged child abuse victims
Retrieval of episodic versus generic information
Children's allegations of sexual abuse
Perspectives on Children’s Testimony
Semantic integration of verbal information into a visual memory.
On Asking Children Bizarre Questions
Children’s Testimony About a Stressful Event
Suggestibility of the child witness
Children's use of scripts in story recall
Differentiating Fact from Fantasy
Children's preschool script reconstruction
The effect of a five-month delay on children's and adults' eyewitness memory
Close encounters of the witness kind
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2015 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |