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The source reviews folie à deux, a term used for shared delusional beliefs between closely associated people. It surveys the phenomenon through historical descriptions, diagnostic debates, case reports, and reviews that consider how close relationships and exposure may relate to shared delusional beliefs.
The collection reviews research on children’s testimony and the factors that shape its reliability. The studies address children’s eyewitness accounts, memory, suggestibility, interviewing, and credibility, including factors associated with false allegations and jurors’ responses to education about child sexual abuse misconceptions in trial settings.
Research on delayed disclosure describes disclosure as potentially unfolding over time rather than occurring in a single, immediate account. The resource reviews studies of children’s disclosure patterns, including findings on prior disclosure, age, interview context, tentative statements, denial, recantation, and later reaffirmation.
This brief resource directs readers to Simpson’s continuing legal education handout, “Countering Counterintuitive Testimony,” for an in-depth discussion of counterintuitive behavior claims. The handout examines expert testimony about sexual-assault responses, the research offered to support such claims, and strategies for questioning their scientific basis.
The cognitive interview is a structured approach to eliciting eyewitness and victim accounts of an event. The resource describes retrieval techniques such as open-ended narration and context reinstatement, reviews interviewer practice and empirical evaluations, and also notes limitations involving accuracy, children, and identification procedures.
False allegations of child abuse are considered through a compilation of studies and clinical literature. The material reviews reported frequency estimates and exonerations, then presents a clinical typology covering allegations in custody disputes, psychological disturbance, conscious manipulation, and suggestive or other iatrogenic influences.
Delayed recall can affect how much information children remember about witnessed events. The source reviews a study comparing children and adults over a five-month interval, then discusses broader research on children’s suggestibility and the implications for investigative interviews.
This resource reviews laboratory research on alcohol’s acute effects on memory in healthy adults, including working, episodic, and semantic memory. The cited experiments report that effects differ by task and timing: alcohol can impair encoding and some forms of recall while leaving implicit memory or priming relatively unaffected, and findings vary across the blood-alcohol curve.
This article challenges the use of behavioral signs or proposed “syndromes” as proof that child sexual abuse occurred or did not occur. It reviews studies on children’s sexualized behaviors and abuse disclosure, emphasizing that such behaviors have varied causes and that neither their presence nor absence alone establishes whether abuse took place.
