Suggestibility in Legal Contexts

Anne Ridley is Principal Lecturer in Psychology at London South Bank University, UK, with particular interest in individual differences in witness suggestibility as well as strategies for supporting vulnerable witnesses in the legal system. In 2008 she was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy.Fiona Gabbert is a Reader in Psychology at the University of Abertay Dundee, UK. She is an expert in the area of social influences on memory, and has published widely on this topic, including a chapter on ‘memory conformity’ in the current book. Another of Fiona’s interests is developing methods to obtain reliable evidence from eyewitnesses. She received an Academic Excellence Award for ‘Outstanding Achievements in the Area of Investigative Interviewing’ in 2011.David La Rooy is a Reader in Psychology at the University of Abertay Dundee, UK. He is also a Scottish Institute for Policing Research Lecturer and his research focuses on issues surrounding the forensic interviewing of children. He teaches evidence-based investigative-interviewing and oversees the university’s degree course in Forensic Psychobiology.

• Contributors ix Series Preface xiPreface xiiiAcknowledgements xv1 Suggestibility: A History and Introduction 1Anne M. Ridley2 The Misinformation Effect: Past Research and Recent Advances 21Quin M. Chrobak and Maria S. Zaragoza3 Interrogative Suggestibility and Compliance 45Gisli H. Gudjonsson4 Suggestibility and Memory Conformity 63Fiona Gabbert and Lorraine Hope5 Suggestibility and Individual Differences: Psychosocial and Memory Measures 85Anne M. Ridley and Gisli H. Gudjonsson6 Recovered Memories and Suggestibility for Entire Events 107James Ost7 Suggestibility and Individual Differences in Typically Developing and Intellectually Disabled Children 129Kamala London, Lucy A. Henry, Travis Conradt and Ryan Corser8 Suggestibility in Vulnerable Groups: Witnesses with Intellectual Disability, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Older People 149Katie L. Maras and Rachel Wilcock9 Acute Suggestibility in Police Interrogation: Self-regulation Failure as a Primary Mechanism of Vulnerability 171Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo10 Suggestibility and Witness Interviewing using the Cognitive Interview and NICHD Protocol 197David J. La Rooy, Deirdre Brown and Michael E. Lamb11 Suggestibility in Legal Contexts: What Do We Know? 217Anne M. Ridley, Fiona Gabbert and David J. La RooyIndex 229