Child Eyewitnesses: Seeing Is Believing
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Two studies examined perceptions of child and adult eyewitnesses' credibility. In Study 1, college students evaluated transcribed testimonies of 8-year-old and adult witnesses to a videotaped staged crime. Half were misinformed about the witness's age (i.e., either believing a child's testimony was provided by an adult or vice versa). Neither actual age nor ostensible age affected participants' evaluations. In Study 2, adults (N= 85) viewed videotaped testimonies of 8-year-old, 12-year-old, and adult eyewitnesses. Half viewed 1 witness's testimony and then evaluated his or her credibility. The others viewed only a still frame of 1 witness, then imagined the testimony the witness had provided, and finally evaluated his or her credibility without having actually heard the testimony. Young children were judged more favorably when their entire testimony, rather than a still frame, was viewed. This was not true for the older eyewitnesses.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004