The effect of biased and non-biased information on judgments of witness credibility

Autor:	Guri C. Bollingmo, Svein Magnussen, Ellen Wessel, Dag Erik Eilertsen, Yvonne Sandvold
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Source credibility media_common.quotation_subject Stereotype Witness Pathology and Forensic Medicine Nonverbal communication Free recall Credibility Jury instructions Emotional expression Psychology Law Social psychology General Psychology Cognitive psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Psychology, Crime & Law. 15:61-71
ISSN:	1477-2744 1068-316X
DOI:	10.1080/10683160802131107
Popis:	The effects of biased and non-biased instructions on judgments of the credibility of witnesses, in the present study a female rape victim, were studied. The instructions related to the importance of the emotional expression accompanying her free recall account of the incident that was given with one of three emotional expressions, and either pointed to emotional expression as a sign of credibility (biased instruction) or warned against using emotional expression as a sign of credibility (non-biased instruction). The results confirmed that credibility ratings are strongly affected by the emotional expression, but showed that this relationship is modifiable when participants are given non-biased instructions.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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