A Missing Link in Suggestibility Research What Is Known About the Behavior of Field Interviewers in Unstructured Interviews With Young Children?

• Published in: Journal of experimental psychology. Applied Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 13 - 24
• Main Author: Gilstrap, Livia L
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Psychological Association 01.03.2004
• Subjects: Child; Child Abuse, Sexual - diagnosis; Child Abuse, Sexual - psychology; Child, Preschool; Choice Behavior; Effect Modifier, Epidemiologic; Experimental Methods; Experimentation; Female; Human; Humans; Imagination; Interview, Psychological; Interviewers; Interviews; Male; Mental Recall; Police; Psychology, Child; Questioning Techniques; Research Methodology; Researchers; Suggestibility; Suggestion; Truth Disclosure; Young Children

Despite suggestibility researchers' focus on adult behaviors that distort children's reports, whether behaviors examined in experimental work are used in the field is unknown. The current study presents a mutually exclusive and exhaustive hierarchical coding system that reflects interview...