Enhancing performance: Factors affecting the informativeness of young witnesses

Michael E. Lamb; Yael Orbach; Amye R. Warren; Phillip W. Esplin; Irit Hershkowitz

doi:10.4324/9781315086309-18

Enhancing performance: Factors affecting the informativeness of young witnesses

Michael E. Lamb, Yael Orbach, Amye R. Warren, Phillip W. Esplin, Irit Hershkowitz

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Over the past 25 years, many researchers have studied children’s testimony with a particular focus on children’s capacities to provide reliable and valid information about their past experiences (see reviews by Ceci & Bruck, 1995; Ceci, Leichtman, & Putnick, 1992; Dent & Flin, 1992; McGough, 1994; Memon & Bull, 1999; Perry & Wrightsman, 1991; Poole & Lamb, 1998; Spencer & Flin, 1990). Initially, most researchers conducted controlled studies in the laboratory, but their ecological validity was often questioned (Doris, 1991; Lamb & Thierry, 2005). Since then, studies conducted in both field and laboratory circumstances have focused more narrowly on issues of particular relevance to forensic application—and have helped generate a remarkable consensus about children’s competencies and limitations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology
Subtitle of host publication	Volume I: Memory for Events
Editors	M. P. Toglia, J. D. Read, D. F. Ross , R. C. L. Lindsay
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	429-452
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351543705
ISBN (Print)	9780805851519
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315086309-18
State	Published - 1 Jan 2017

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Lamb, M. E., Orbach, Y., Warren, A. R., Esplin, P. W., & Hershkowitz, I. (2017). Enhancing performance: Factors affecting the informativeness of young witnesses. In M. P. Toglia, J. D. Read, D. F. Ross , & R. C. L. Lindsay (Eds.), The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology: Volume I: Memory for Events (pp. 429-452). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315086309-18

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Enhancing performance: Factors affecting the informativeness of young witnesses. / Lamb, Michael E.; Orbach, Yael; Warren, Amye R. et al.
The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology: Volume I: Memory for Events. ed. / M. P. Toglia; J. D. Read; D. F. Ross ; R. C. L. Lindsay. Taylor and Francis, 2017. p. 429-452.

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