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Effects of cooperation on information disclosure in mock-witness interviews
- Source :
- De La Fuente Vilar, A, Horselenberg, R, Strömwall, L A, Landström, S, Hope, L & van Koppen, P J 2020, ' Effects of cooperation on information disclosure in mock-witness interviews ', Legal and Criminological Psychology, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 133-149 . https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12167, Legal and Criminological Psychology, 25(2), 133-149. Wiley-Blackwell, De La Fuente Vilar, A, Horselenberg, R, Strömwall, L A, Landström, S, Hope, L & van Koppen, P J 2020, ' Effects of cooperation on information disclosure in mock-witness interviews ', Legal and Criminological Psychology . https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12167, Legal and Criminological Psychology, 25(2), 133-149. Wiley
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Purpose: Forensic interviewers often face witnesses who are unwilling to cooperate with the investigation. In this experimental study, we examined the extent to which cooperativeness instructions affect information disclosure in a witness investigative interview.Methods: One hundred and thirty‐six participants watched a recorded mock‐crime and were interviewed twice as mock‐witnesses. They were randomly assigned to one of four conditions instructing different levels of cooperativeness: Control (no instructions), Cooperation, No Cooperation, and No Cooperation plus Cooperation. The cooperativeness instructions aimed to influence how participants’ perceived the costs and benefits of cooperation. We predicted that Cooperation and No Cooperation instructions would increase and decrease information disclosure and accuracy, respectively.Results: We found decreased information disclosure and, to a lesser extent, accuracy in the No Cooperation and No Cooperation plus Cooperation conditions. In a second interview, the shift of instructions from No Cooperation to Cooperation led to a limited increase of information disclosure at no cost of accuracy. Cooperativeness instructions partially influenced the communication strategies participants used to disclose or withhold information.Conclusions: Our results demonstrate the detrimental effects of uncooperativeness on information disclosure and, to a lesser extent, the accuracy of witness statements. We discuss the implications of a lack of witness cooperation and the importance of gaining witness cooperation to facilitate information disclosure in investigative interviews.
- Subjects :
- investigative interviewing
IMPACT
ACCURACY
Applied psychology
Control (management)
Face (sociological concept)
cooperation
Affect (psychology)
Information elicitation
witness statement
050105 experimental psychology
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
Information disclosure
Psychology
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
information elicitation
Applied Psychology
Cost–benefit analysis
SIMULATING AMNESIA
cost-benefit analysis
MEMORY
050901 criminology
05 social sciences
Cooperativeness
information disclosure
eyewitness memory
TACTICS
Witness
0509 other social sciences
cost–benefit analysis
RETRIEVAL PRACTICE
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13553259
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- De La Fuente Vilar, A, Horselenberg, R, Strömwall, L A, Landström, S, Hope, L & van Koppen, P J 2020, ' Effects of cooperation on information disclosure in mock-witness interviews ', Legal and Criminological Psychology, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 133-149 . https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12167, Legal and Criminological Psychology, 25(2), 133-149. Wiley-Blackwell, De La Fuente Vilar, A, Horselenberg, R, Strömwall, L A, Landström, S, Hope, L & van Koppen, P J 2020, ' Effects of cooperation on information disclosure in mock-witness interviews ', Legal and Criminological Psychology . https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12167, Legal and Criminological Psychology, 25(2), 133-149. Wiley
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9dbced76305bd1149e7be8bb10f8afce