Social influence and children's event recall and suggestibility

Age differences in the effects of social influence on children’s eyewitness performance and their metacognitive monitoring

“…Roebers, Schwarz, and Neumann (2005) found that 10-year-olds in a strong social inXuence condition (misleading questions and a confederate yielding to the wrong suggestions) did not diVer signiWcantly from those in a control condition with no confederate. In contrast, 8-year-olds in the confederate condition were signiWcantly aVected.…”

The effects of question format and co-witness peer discussion on the confidence accuracy of children's testimonies

“…Leading and misleading questions from the interviewer also influence witness memory recall and confidence accuracy, more so for younger children than older children and adults (e.g., Roebers et al, 2005;Schwarz & Roebers, 2006).…”

“…An example of such a question is, "What were the different people wearing?" Research has shown that children report a high proportion of correct information in free recall and the proportion correct is also higher than when answering focused questions (e.g., Roebers, Schwarz, & Neumann, 2005).…”

How interviewers’ nonverbal behaviors can affect children’s perceptions and suggestibility

“…For example, Roebers, Schwarz, and Neumann (2005) looked at the effect of social influence on 10-year-olds' event recall. To manipulate social influence, they interviewed some children in the presence of an adult confederate who was pretending to be interviewed while other children were interviewed alone.…”