PSY328H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Soft Sell, Suggestibility, Facial Composite
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Standard interview - ask witnesses to describe in own words what happened - 5 w"s - problem. = no standardization = same questions to everyone - no leadings (smashed vs. bumped) Police interviews - mclean 1995 - tape recordings (word for word transcripts) vs. officer written interviews (during the moment) - findings: 1. 50% of all questions were leading - some had yes no answers = x = can"t explain themselves 2. Talking time 50-50 - x = officer controlling interview = can"t get maximum information 3. Obstructive style - officer interrupts your description to ask you elaborate - interrupts the flow - reconsider giving that info 4. Written report highly edited - omissions of relevant info - inclusion or irrelevant facts - some officers wrote the opposite 5. All 16 were signed as true by the witness - felt like they had to - assume cops recorded correctly - want to leave already.
