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This resource surveys research and guidance on interviewing child witnesses, including techniques that can distort children’s reports. It discusses reinforcement, peer information, speculation, rapport, and open-ended questioning, then includes studies on interviewer practices, remote interviews, and children’s responses to “I don’t know” instructions.
Principe and London review research on how conversations between parents and children can shape children’s memories before formal forensic interviews. They explain how parental questions, suggestions, and shared retellings may influence children’s accounts and discuss implications for interviewing and evaluating young witnesses.
This declaration concerns potential forensic review of Child Advocacy Center interviews in a military court-martial matter. It sets out the psychologist’s background and experience with child sexual abuse testimony and interview review, and includes supporting materials about training in forensic child interviewing.
This State Bar of Arizona handout examines testimony about children’s responses and behavior in child sexual abuse cases. It surveys issues including disclosure timing, changing accounts, continued contact, interviewing practices, possible confounds, confirmation bias, and research relevant to evaluating competing explanations.
Children’s suggestibility describes how post-event influences can alter recollection, with susceptibility shaped by more than age alone. The resource reviews research on memory strength, source monitoring, interview context, and interviewer bias, including studies of children’s responses to misleading questions and inaccurate reports.
This compilation gathers research using the term ‘drift’ in studies of memory strength, recall, forgetting, and decision processes, alongside work on warning signals and predator memory. The cited papers examine different tasks and models, including delayed judgments of learning and age-related memory performance, so the collection presents research topics rather than direct evidence about memory changes in a particular witness.
