The Forensic and Clinical Relevance of Evidence-Based Investigative Interview Methods in Historical Sexual Abuse Cases

Dodier, Olivier; Otgaar, Henry

doi:10.1177/2167702619858287

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“…The original NICHD Protocol also includes questions concerning the disclosure of an alleged event, which were not suitable within the context of the current experiment. Two female research assistants received a 2-day training in the administration of the NICHD interview using the German (Christman and Wazlawik 2016) and Dutch translation of the Protocol (e.g., de Ruiter et al 2016; see http:// nichdprotocol.com/the-nichd-protocol/). The research assistants were trained in the different components of the Protocol (i.e., ground rules, rapport building, episodic memory training) by means of role-play interview sessions.…”

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Protecting Against Misinformation: Examining the Effect of Empirically Based Investigative Interviewing on Misinformation Reporting

Otgaar

Ruiter

Sumampouw

et al. 2020

J Police Crim Psych

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Children who are involved in legal cases are often interviewed about events they witnessed or that might have happened to them. Occasionally, after such interviews, children are confronted with misinformation regarding their experiences. The question that arises is whether their earlier interviews may protect them from reporting misinformation. The goal of the present experiment was to assess whether empirically based interviewing by means of the National Institute for Child Health and Development (NICHD) Protocol would affect the reporting of misinformation in children. Children were involved in an interactive event (i.e., science demonstration). Following this, three experimental groups were created: one group was interviewed using the NICHD Protocol, one group had to freely recall what they experienced, and one group was not asked to retrieve any memories about the event. Next, all children received misinformation concerning the event and were then subjected to a final memory test. We found that children's recall during the NICHD interview protected children against the incorporation of misinformation in their accounts of the event. This effect was absent in the other two conditions. The current experiment suggests that evidence-based investigative interviewing can inoculate children's memory against the corrupting impact of misinformation.

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Protecting Against Misinformation: Examining the Effect of Empirically Based Investigative Interviewing on Misinformation Reporting

Otgaar

Ruiter

Sumampouw

et al. 2020

J Police Crim Psych

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“…Although we did not examine adults’ memory for actual abuse, our study addressed the call to test empirically the effect of interview protocols on the accuracy of reports relevant to historic child abuse (Dodier & Otgaar, 2019). Specifically, these analyses build on research regarding the CI’s efficacy and expand that work to memory of a documented event decades after the event occurred (Fisher et al, 2000; Leins et al, 2014).…”

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“…On the basis of this body of research, other social scientists have echoed Prosecutor Mitchell’s statements and advocated for the CI’s use in historic child sexual-assault cases (Dodier & Otgaar, 2019). In the present study, we attempt to address this call and compare the CI, combined with mental reinstatement and with mental and physical-context reinstatement, with a standard forensic interview.…”

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Adults’ Memory for a Maltreatment-Related Childhood Experience: Interview Protocols

Goldfarb

Goodman

Wang

et al. 2022

Clinical Psychological Science

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Adults’ claims of decades-old child maltreatment raise questions about how to obtain accurate memories about childhood events. In this study, adults who experienced a documented child maltreatment medical examination when they were 3 to 16 years old (Time 1) were interviewed 2 decades later (Time 2). The adults ( N = 115) were randomly assigned to one of three interview-protocol conditions: a standard forensic interview, the cognitive interview (CI) with mental reinstatement, or the CI with mental- and physical-context reinstatement. The CI increased accuracy by dampening reports of potentially schematic but nonexperienced information. Younger age at Time 1 was associated with memories that were less complete but not more inaccurate. A greater number of Time 2 posttraumatic-stress-disorder symptoms predicted both correct and incorrect (omissions and commissions, respectively) answers to specific questions and incorrect answers to misleading questions; commission errors were associated with Time 1 physical-abuse status. Theoretical implications and clinical and legal applications are discussed.

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“…The replication of the field study is needed in the traffic accident context, as such accident events that happen frequently and are becoming a major problem in many countries, including Indonesia (Indonesian National Police Traffic Corps, 2021; WHO, 2022). Thus, it is an empirically question whether evidence‐based interviews such as the CI method can facilitate the accurate recall of high emotional events, such as a traffic accident, that took place a long time ago (Dodier & Otgaar, 2019; Goldfarb et al, 2023). Therefore, in one of our experiments, delay was an important variable to examine whether the CI method can be effectively applied in a traffic accident context.…”

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Testing the efficacy of the cognitive interview to road traffic accident investigations

Maulina,

Irwanda,

Guritnaningsih

et al. 2024

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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In the current set of experiments, we examined the effectiveness of the Cognitive Interview (CI) on memory for traffic accidents. Three online experiments were conducted among Indonesian young motorcyclists who had an accident experience. Participants were interviewed about their most memorable accident experience, either with a CI or a Standard Interview (SI) method (Experiment 1). We added the time delay as the second independent variable (less than a month versus between 6 and 10 months) in Experiment 2. In Experiment 3, the interview methods were compared across two age groups (adolescents versus young adults). In all experiments, the CI led to more event‐related and peripheral recall than the SI. Furthermore, this effect persisted even when the event happened a long time ago and was replicated in both age groups. Our results show empirical evidence for the effectiveness of the CI in a traffic accident context, especially in a non‐WEIRD country.

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The Forensic and Clinical Relevance of Evidence-Based Investigative Interview Methods in Historical Sexual Abuse Cases

Cited by 8 publications

References 34 publications

Protecting Against Misinformation: Examining the Effect of Empirically Based Investigative Interviewing on Misinformation Reporting

Protecting Against Misinformation: Examining the Effect of Empirically Based Investigative Interviewing on Misinformation Reporting

Adults’ Memory for a Maltreatment-Related Childhood Experience: Interview Protocols

Testing the efficacy of the cognitive interview to road traffic accident investigations

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