A comfortable witness is a good witness: rapport‐building and susceptibility to misinformation in an investigative mock‐crime interview

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Allegation rates in forensic child abuse investigations: Comparing the Revised and Standard NICHD Protocols (2014, background): “…the accuracy of statements provided by children (Goodman et al., 1991; Hershkowitz et al., 2006) and adults (Collins, Lincoln & Frank, 2002; Vallano & Compo, 2011) while increasing the number of relevant details provided (Davies, Westcott & Horan, 2000; Hershkowitz, 2009; Roberts, Lamb &…”
“Everything Is Perfect, and We Have No Problems”: Detecting and Limiting Social Desirability Bias in Qualitative Research (2019, background): “Vallano and Compo (2011), studying the accuracy of eye-witness accounts, found that verbal rapport building through interviewer self-disclosure and expressing interest in the respondent improved recall accuracy of past events and acted as a buffer against inaccurate reporting.”
The efficacy of rapport-based techniques for minimizing counter-interrogation tactics amongst a field sample of terrorists. (2014, background): “…(Bull & Milne, 2004; Ord et al., 2008), and of these few studies most have tended to adopt a micro-level approach based on generating interview task lists that do not acknowledge the wider context of interactions (Thoresen, Lønnum, Melinder, Stridbeck, & Magnussen, 2006; Vallano & Compo, 2011).”