The Suggestibility of Children: Scientific Research and Legal Implications

By Richard D. Friedman, S. Ceci. 2000

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Conversational apprentices: Helping children become competent informants about their own experiences (2006, background): “Much has been written about the degree to which children’s responses may be influenced by adult interviewers (Bruck & Ceci, 1999; Ceci & Bruck, 1993, 1995; Ceci & Friedman, 2000), with suggestibility exacerbated by poor memory of the events and the social demand characteristics of the interview.”
DISCLOSURE OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE What Does the Research Tell Us About the Ways That Children Tell (2005, unknown): “United States v. Ingham, 42 M.J. 218 (A.C.M.R. 1995).”
The nature of children’s true and false narratives☆ (2002, background): “In contrast, Dalenberg (1997) reported that children with highly valid diagnoses of sexual abuse related more improbable or fantastic details than children with more questionable diagnoses.”