Children's lies and their detection: Implications for child witness testimony

By Victoria Talwar, Angela M. Crossman. 2012

90 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Mairi Benson
2. Thomas D. Lyon
3. Martine B. Powell

In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Mairi Benson
2. Thomas D. Lyon
3. Martine B. Powell

In Social Psychology

1. Mairi Benson
2. Thomas D. Lyon
3. Martine B. Powell

Citations in the corpus

• Evaluation of a comprehensive interactive training system for investigative interviewers of children (2015, background): “The evidence shows that the child’s ability to answer truth-lie questions affects jurors’ ratings of child witness credibility (Connolly, Gagnon & Lavoie, 2008) and yet the test bears little relation to the accuracy of the testimony (see Talwar & Crossman, 2012, for a review).”
• 35. Interviewing children. (2014, background): “Children begin to lie by two years of age, and their first lies predominantly involve denials of transgressions (Talwar & Crossman 2012).”