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The Willingness of Children to Lie and the Assessment of Credibility in an Ecologically Relevant Laboratory Setting
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In this paper, a series of experiments were conducted to determine the willingness of children to lie in a realistic setting, compare judgments of credibility from both lay evaluations and Criterion-Based Content Analysis (CBCA), and examine the effects of expert testimony regarding statement validity assessment on mock jurors who were asked to make evaluations of the children's statements.Abstract:
A series of 4 experiments were conducted to (a) determine the willingness of children to lie in a realistic setting, (b) compare judgments of credibility from both lay evaluations and Criterion-Based Content Analysis (CBCA), and (c) examine the effects of expert testimony regarding Statement Validity Assessment on mock jurors who were asked to make evaluations of the children's statements. In Experiment 1, 81% of children who witnessed a research assistant steal a textbook made accusations against the thief (truthful), 69% of children who did not witness the theft accused the research assistant of the theft following prompting by significant others, and 56% of the children who witnessed a significant other steal the textbook incorrectly accused the research assistant following a request from their significant other. Using the statements obtained from the children in Experiment 1, Experiments 2 and 3 found that classification accuracy of lay evaluators was significantly poorer than expert application of CB...read more
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Criteria-Based Content Analysis: A Qualitative Review of the First 37 Studies.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the available SVA research, including the accuracy of Criteria-Based Content Analysis (CBCA; part of SVA), interrater agreement between CBCA coders, frequency of occurrence of CBCA criteria in statements, correlations between CBCAs scores and interviewee's age and social and verbal skills, and issues regarding the Validity Checklist.
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Filial Dependency and Recantation of Child Sexual Abuse Allegations
TL;DR: New insight is provided into the process by which children reveal interpersonal trauma and have implications for debates concerning the credibility of child sexual abuse allegations and treatment in dependency samples.
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Children's Lie-Telling to Conceal a Parent's Transgression: Legal Implications
TL;DR: There was a significant, yet limited, relation between children's lie-telling behavior and their moral understanding of lie- or truth-telling, and after children were questioned about issues concerning truth- and lie- Tell the truth, significantly more children told the truth about their parents' transgression.
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Lie Detection from Multiple Cues: A Meta-analysis
Maria Hartwig,Charles F. Bond +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the detectability of lies from constellations of multiple cues, with a particular focus on whether lie detectability increases as the conditions approach real-life, forensic settings, as some critics of laboratory research have argued.
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Detecting Deceit Via Analyses of Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior in Children and Adults
TL;DR: This paper examined children's and undergraduates' verbal and nonverbal deceptive behavior, and the extent to which their truths and lies could be correctly classified by paying attention to these responses, and found that actual cues to deceit were remarkably similar across different age groups (for example, both 5-6-year-olds and undergraduate students obtained lower CBCA scores and made fewer movements while lying).
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Suggestibility of the child witness: A historical review and synthesis.
Stephen J. Ceci,Maggie Bruck +1 more
TL;DR: There are reliable age differences in suggestibility but that even very young children are capable of recalling much that is forensically relevant, and a synthesis of this research posits three "families" of factors--cognitive, social, and biological--that must be considered if one is to understand seemingly contradictory interpretations of the findings.
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Jeopardy in the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children's Testimony
Stephen J. Ceci,Maggie Bruck +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined real life cases in which children were key witnesses in criminal chid abuse trials and found that children are more suggestible than adults, and if so, what are the implications for those who work with child witnesses.
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Deception in 3-Year-Olds
TL;DR: The authors found that three-year-olds were more likely than girls to admit their transgression when asked whether they peeped at a toy while the experimenter was in the room, and the great majority either denied that they peeked or would not answer the question.
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The Development of Statement Reality Analysis
TL;DR: The Statement Reality Analysis (SRA) technique is employed to assess the credibility of witness evidence in criminal cases in this paper, where an expert psychologist is appointed by the court in cases in which a child's evidence is central in criminal proceedings.
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