Perceived credibility and eyewitness testimony of children with intellectual disabilities
Perceived credibility and eyewitness testimony of children with intellectual disabilities
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1365-2788.2011.01383.x
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发表时间：
2011-04-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Crane, L.
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作者：
Henry, L.;Ridley, A.;Crane, L.
BackgroundAlthough children with intellectual disabilities（ID）often provide accurate witness testimony，jurors tend to perceive their witness statements to be inherently unreliable.MethodThe current study explored the free recall transcripts of child witnesses with ID who had watched a video clip，relative to those of typically developing（TD）age-matched children，并评估了模拟陪审员如何看待这些成绩单的知识组（ID或TD）的成员。本研究的另一个目的是要确定是否与自由回忆和证人的特点（焦虑和心理年龄）水平的看法可信度。ResultsMock陪审员评为ID儿童的证词不太可信比TD年龄匹配的比较组。这主要是因为ID儿童的成绩单包含的细节比TD儿童少。焦虑和心理年龄被认为是没有影响的credibility.ConclusionsIt似乎，即使在没有知识的情况下，一个孩子是否有或没有ID，这个因素仍然影响模拟陪审员的可信度的看法。我们的研究结果表明，证人成绩单质量的根本差异导致ID儿童的可信度较低。
BackgroundAlthough children with intellectual disabilities (ID) often provide accurate witness testimony, jurors tend to perceive their witness statements to be inherently unreliable.MethodThe current study explored the free recall transcripts of child witnesses with ID who had watched a video clip, relative to those of typically developing (TD) age-matched children, and assessed how mock jurors perceived these transcripts in the absence of knowledge of group (ID or TD) membership. A further aim of this research was to determine whether perceptions of credibility were associated with levels of free recall and witness characteristics (anxiety and mental age).ResultsMock jurors rated the testimony of children with ID as less credible than that of a TD age-matched comparison group. This was largely because of the transcripts of the children with ID containing fewer details than those of the TD children. Anxiety and mental age were found to have no effect on perceived levels of credibility.ConclusionsIt appears that even in the absence of knowledge of whether a child does or does not have ID, this factor still affects perceptions of credibility among mock jurors. Our findings suggest that fundamental differences in the quality of the witness transcripts lead to lower perceptions of credibility for children with ID.