The enhanced cognitive interview: expressions of uncertainty, motivation and its relation with report accuracy

Paulo, R.M; Albuquerque, Pedro Barbas; Bull, Ray

doi:10.1080/1068316x.2015.1109089

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“…Although the AtoA interviews excluded all external stimuli and reduced the social demands associated with the presence of a human interviewer, this did not impact on performance in this first phase in that participants performed similarly across all memory performance measures. This phase commenced with a free recall account, which supports strategic regulation typically resulting in improved accuracy vs. forced report, or targeted probing, for example (see Koriat and Goldsmith, 1996 ; Koriat et al, 2000 ; Dando et al, 2009 ; Dando, 2013 ; Paulo et al, 2016 ). Here, participants in both contexts were able to maintain control of what they reported, and computer-mediated communication neither improved nor diminished their performance in this phase.…”

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Eyewitness Memory in Face-to-Face and Immersive Avatar-to-Avatar Contexts

Taylor

Dando

2018

Front. Psychol.

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Technological advances offer possibilities for innovation in the way eyewitness testimony is elicited. Typically, this occurs face-to-face. We investigated whether a virtual environment, where interviewer and eyewitness communicate as avatars, might confer advantages by attenuating the social and situational demands of a face-to-face interview, releasing more cognitive resources for invoking episodic retrieval mode. In conditions of intentional encoding, eyewitnesses were interviewed 48 h later, either face-to-face or in a virtual environment (N = 38). Participants in the virtual environment significantly outperformed those interviewed face-to-face on all episodic performance measures – improved correct reporting reduced errors, and increased accuracy. Participants reported finding it easier to admit not remembering event information to the avatar, and finding the avatar easier to talk to. These novel findings, and our pattern of retrieval results indicates the potential of avatar-to-avatar communication in virtual environments, and provide impetus for further research investigating eyewitness cognition in contemporary retrieval contexts.

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Eyewitness Memory in Face-to-Face and Immersive Avatar-to-Avatar Contexts

Taylor

Dando

2018

Front. Psychol.

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“…Interview protocol. The CI protocol employed (Fisher & Geiselman, 1992) had previously been translated and adapted for the Portuguese language and found to be effective with a Portuguese population (Paulo, Albuquerque, & Bull, 2015a;Paulo et al, 2015b).…”

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Enhancing the cognitive interview with an alternative procedure to witness-compatible questioning: category clustering recall

Paulo

Albuquerque

Vitorino

et al. 2017

Psychology, Crime & Law

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The Cognitive Interview (CI) is one of the most widely studied and used methods to interview witnesses. However, new component techniques for further increasing correct recall are still crucial. We focused on how a new and simpler interview strategy, Category Clustering Recall (CCR), could increase recall in comparison with witness-compatible questioning and tested if a Revised Cognitive Interview (RCI) with CCR instead of witness-compatible questioning and without the change order and change perspective mnemonics would be effective for this purpose. Participants watched a mock robbery video and were interviewed 48 hours later with either the CI or the RCI. Recalled information was classified as either correct, incorrect or confabulation. Although exclusion of the change order and change perspective mnemonics in the RCI group might have caused a slight decrease in recall during the last interview phases, the RCI group generally produced more correct information than the CI group, with a lower number of confabulations. Further analyses revealed CCR was largely responsible for this increase in correct recall. CCR is a very promising interview technique which allowed the interviewer to obtain more detailed information without additional questions and may have, in certain situations, several practical advantages over a questioning phase

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“…Around 65% of the produced 'uncertainties' in their experiment were correct, as opposed to 90% of the 'certainties'. Paulo et al (2016) suggest that the 'uncertainties' were not the result of inferior memory traces: interviewees who provided more 'uncertainties' did not provide more incorrect or confabulated details in their remaining recall. In the future, it would be interesting to conduct a study on the effect of the instruction to ignore attributed confidence for recollections on the reporting threshold and statement accuracy.…”

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“…In fact, one could argue that the reporting threshold in the experimental groups was lowered ("You can also report things that you do not feel entirely sure of"), with an increase in the number of inaccurate recollections as a result. In fact, Paulo, Albuquerque, and Bull (2016) found that spontaneous 'uncertainties' (e.g., I…”

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Demonstrating detail in investigative interviews—An examination of the DeMo technique

Boon

Milne

Rosloot³

et al. 2020

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Summary Attaining an uninterrupted free report (FR) is at the heart of best practice investigative interviewing guidance. However, witnesses/victims do not naturally provide detailed accounts. Techniques have been developed to counter‐act this, such as a report everything (RE) instruction. This research examined the relative effectiveness of an addition to the RE component, a demonstration of the level of detail, using a behavioural exemplar, by describing an innocuous object; the Demonstration for More detail (DeMo) technique. Participants (N = 61) watched a mock crime video and asked to recall it using one of three instructions: (a) basic FR as the control, (b) RE instruction and (c) RE instruction plus DeMo technique. Participants who were given the DeMo technique recalled more details than both the control and RE groups. Accuracy rates were similarly high across all conditions. The implications of using the DeMo technique within an investigative interview are discussed.

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The enhanced cognitive interview: expressions of uncertainty, motivation and its relation with report accuracy

Cited by 16 publications

References 40 publications

Eyewitness Memory in Face-to-Face and Immersive Avatar-to-Avatar Contexts

Eyewitness Memory in Face-to-Face and Immersive Avatar-to-Avatar Contexts

Enhancing the cognitive interview with an alternative procedure to witness-compatible questioning: category clustering recall

Demonstrating detail in investigative interviews—An examination of the DeMo technique

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