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Police interviewing behaviors and commercially sexually exploited adolescents’ reluctance.

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: = 2,416 question-answer pairs across ten interviews). Twenty-six percent of officers' utterances contained at least one interviewing tactic. When statements were paired with maximization, they were correlated with more reluctance than when they were not paired with an interviewing tactic. Contrary to predictions, support was also related to greater reluctance. Open-ended (recall) questions and statements were associated with greater reluctance than closed-ended (recognition) questions. The results highlight the importance of understanding the context in which interviewing strategies are employed when assessing the relation between interviewer behavior and interviewee reluctance.

Source: Psychology Public Policy and Law

DOI: 10.1037/law0000315

Authors: Agnieszka M. Nogalska, Hayden M. Henderson, Scarlet J. Cho, Thomas D. Lyon

Institution: University of Southern California

Language: English

Topic: Deception detection and forensic psychology

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development