“…Moreover, witness confidence has long been demonstrated to be a key factor in jurors' decision making (Wheatcroft, Wagstaff, & Manarin, 2015). Alibi evidence is a rapidly growing area of research (Burke & Marion, 2012) with research demonstrating that alibi evidence is commonly perceived as deceptive (Allison, Jung, Sweeney, & Culhane, 2014) and something to be suspicious of (Olson, 2013;Olson & Wells, 2004;Price & Dahl, 2014). However, relatively little research has examined evaluations of children in the role of alibi witnesses (Dahl & Price, 2012), rather than eyewitnesses for the prosecution, so it is unclear as to whether this common view of adult alibi witnesses also extends to evaluations of child alibi witnesses.…”