A United States Forensic Sample for the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scales

Frumkin, I. Bruce; Lally, Stephen J.; Sexton, James E.

doi:10.1002/bsl.2032

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“…Previous studies indicated a strong negative relationship between intellectual ability and interrogative suggestibility (Gudjonsson 1983), and Frumkin et al (2012 found intellectual ability to be more closely related to the tendency to yield to misleading questions than the tendency to shift answers following negative feedback.…”

Section: Interrogative Suggestibilitymentioning

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Can Children Learn How to Resist Repeated Leading Questions and Social Pressures?

2023

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In forensic contexts, children who are victims or witnesses of crimes are repeatedly questioned using stressful leading questions and social pressure. The main aims of the present study are to verify the effects of repeated suggestive interviews on children’s level of suggestibility and resistant responses and to study how age and intelligence quotient may reduce the vulnerability of children. The study involved 110 children aged 10–15 years who were administered the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale 2, and 6 months later, the parallel form GSS1. Older children showed a significant reduction in levels of yielding leading questions in the second administration, while the levels of a shift in answers related to negative criticism remained unchanged. In older children, the age and intelligence quotients may reduce the effect of leading questions and improve resistant responses. The results showed that younger children maintain a stable suggestive vulnerability and constant use of the same strategies to cope with cognitive and social risk factors of interrogative suggestibility, while older children could reduce their levels of yield and use more resistant responses that defer to greater source monitoring and less adherence to external expectations. Children, when exposed to repeated suggestive interviews, may learn to cope with more cognitive aspects of misleading questions while being less able to handle social–emotional pressures. In forensic practice, these results may indicate how children, depending on their age, manage the factors of suggestibility during a testimony hearing and which resistance capacities they can actually use.

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Section: Interrogative Suggestibilitymentioning

confidence: 95%

Can Children Learn How to Resist Repeated Leading Questions and Social Pressures?

2023

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“…Further, when questioned by law enforcement, adolescents may not maintain eye contact, or at least maintain less eye contact than adults typically do (Arnold et al, 2000; Levine & Sutton-Smith, 1973). Adolescents may also provide inconsistent narratives or change their answers to repeated questions (Larkina et al, 2017; Richardson et al, 1995), in part as a result of their greater susceptibility than adults to suggestive influences (Frumkin et al, 2012). Law enforcement, however, do not consistently recognize such tendencies or susceptibility to suggestions are developmentally normative, believing instead that behaviors like evasiveness, avoiding eye contact, and inconsistencies are indicators of adolescent deception (Vrij et al, 2006).…”

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Current investigator practices and beliefs on interviewing trafficked minors.

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et al. 2023

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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Despite significant increases in attention during the past 2 decades to the problem of sex trafficking, especially of minors, little is known about how investigators identify, engage, and ultimately question suspected victims. Here we address this gap by surveying investigators in the United States about their interactions with and beliefs about minor trafficking victims. Local, state, and federal law enforcement investigators and related legal professionals (N = 148) completed an online questionnaire about their current practices and challenges they face when identifying and interviewing suspected minor victims of trafficking; their knowledge surrounding youth, sex trafficking, and interviewing; and factors believed to be important to the successful prosecution of traffickers. Common indicators of sex trafficking reported by respondents included the victim's background and behavior during an interview and physical corroboration. Frequent challenges included the minor's previous interactions with authorities and their relationship to the trafficker. Finally, victim disclosure and corroborating physical evidence were believed to be most important for successful prosecution. Results have policy and training implications regarding methods of improving identification and prosecution of traffickers.

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“…A similar analysis was carried out for linen strips (dark beige in Figure c, d); here, the measured coefficient is ∑ linen =(4.23±0.01) cm −1 . The internal content of the vase (dark red in Figure d) shows an absorption coefficient compatible with an organic compound such as a mixture of oils and wax . For comparison purposes, a mixture of typical animal and vegetal organic compounds was considered to predict the neutron linear attenuation coefficient as reported in Table .…”

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Egyptian Grave Goods of Kha and Merit Studied by Neutron and Gamma Techniques

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Artifacts from the Egyptian grave goods of Kha and Merit preserved at the Museo Egizio in Turin were studied through a combination of non‐destructive and non‐invasive neutron and gamma techniques (namely neutron imaging, neutron diffraction and prompt gamma activation analysis). The results provide unprecedented morphological reconstructions of the inner parts of the two alabaster and metallic vases and their isotopic and phase composition, thereby extending our knowledge of the hitherto unknown content of the vases and their functions.

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A United States Forensic Sample for the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scales

Cited by 15 publications

References 34 publications

Can Children Learn How to Resist Repeated Leading Questions and Social Pressures?

Can Children Learn How to Resist Repeated Leading Questions and Social Pressures?

Current investigator practices and beliefs on interviewing trafficked minors.

Egyptian Grave Goods of Kha and Merit Studied by Neutron and Gamma Techniques

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