Witness memory and alcohol: The effects of state-dependent recall
| Autor: | Kenneth G. Furton, Rolando N. Carol, Nadja Schreiber Compo, Jacqueline R. Evans, Howard Holness, Kristin Nichols-Lopez, Stefan Rose, Pamela S. Pimentel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Context (language use) PsycINFO Placebo 050105 experimental psychology law.invention Interviews as Topic Young Adult Alcohol intoxication Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Randomized controlled trial law Criminal Law Encoding (memory) medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychiatry General Psychology 0505 law Recall 05 social sciences Middle Aged medicine.disease Witness Psychiatry and Mental health Mental Recall 050501 criminology Female Psychology Alcoholic Intoxication human activities Law Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Law and Human Behavior. 41:202-215 |
| ISSN: | 1573-661X 0147-7307 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/lhb0000224 |
| Popis: | Many real-world eyewitnesses are under the influence of alcohol either at the time of the crime, the interview, or both. Only recently has empirical research begun to examine the effects of alcohol on witness memory, yielding mixed results. The present study tested the importance of state-dependent memory in the context of alcohol's effects on encoding versus retrieval of a witnessed event, while simultaneously informing real-world investigative practices: Should witnesses sober up before an interview? Participants (N = 249) were randomized to a control, placebo, or alcohol condition at encoding and to either an immediate retrieval condition (in the same state) or a 1-week delay control, placebo, or alcohol retrieval condition. They recalled a witnessed mock crime using open ended and cued recall formats. After a delay, witnesses intoxicated at both encoding and retrieval provided less accurate information than witnesses in sober or placebo groups at both times. There was no advantage of state-dependent memory but intoxicated witnesses were best when recalling immediately compared to 1 week later (sober, placebo, or reintoxicated). Findings have direct implications for the timing of intoxicated witnesses' interviews such that moderately intoxicated witnesses may not benefit from a sobering delay but rather, should be interviewed immediately. (PsycINFO Database Record |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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