Interviewing witnesses: Eliciting coarse-grain information.

Interviewing witnesses and victims

Police investigators agree that eyewitnesses usually provide central leads in their investigations (Berresheim and Weber, 2003; George and Clifford, 1992; Kebbell and Milne, 1998). Police lament, however, that witnesses rarely provide sufficient information (Kebbell and Milne, 1998). How might police improve the quality and quantity of evidence elicited from eyewitnesses? Unfortunately, police ...

Coarse Grain Reconfigurable Architectures

The paper gives a brief survey over a decade of R&D on coarse grain reconfigurable hardware and related compilation techniques and points out its significance to the emerging discipline of reconfigurable computing.

Coarse-grain Coherence Tracking

Interviewing witnesses: the effect of forced confabulation on event memory.

After viewing a crime video, participants answered 16 answerable and 6 unanswerable questions. Those in the "voluntary guess" condition had a "don't know" response option; those in the "forced guess" condition did not. One week later the same questions were answered with a "don't know" option. In both experiments, information generated from forced confabulation was less likely remembered than i...

Interviewing witnesses: forced confabulation and confirmatory feedback increase false memories.

In two experiments, adults who witnessed a videotaped event subsequently engaged in face-to-face interviews during which they were forced to confabulate information about the events they had seen. The interviewer selectively reinforced some of the participants' confabulated responses by providing confirmatory feedback (e.g., "Yes, ______ is the correct answer") and provided neutral (uninformati...