Detecting deception in children: Event familiarity affects criterion-based content analysis ratings

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Pezdek, K; Morrow, A; Blandon-Gitlin, I; Goodman, GS; Quas, JA; Saywitz, KJ; Bidrose, S; Pipe, ME; Rogers, M; Brodie, L
• 署名单位: Claremont Colleges; Claremont Graduate University; University of California System; University of California Davis; University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University of California Los Angeles Medical Center; University of Otago; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.89.1.119
• 发表日期: 2004
• 页码: 119-126

摘要

Statement Validity Assessment (SVA) is a comprehensive credibility assessment system, with the Criterion-Based Content Analysis (CBCA) as a core component. Worldwide, the CBCA is reported to be the most widely used veracity assessment instrument. We tested and confirmed the hypothesis that CBCA scores are affected by event familiarity; descriptions of familiar events are more likely to be judged true than are descriptions of unfamiliar events. CBCA scores were applied to transcripts of 114 children who recalled a routine medical procedure (control) or a traumatic medical procedure that they had experienced one time (relatively unfamiliar) or multiple times (relatively familiar). CBCA scores were higher for children in the relatively familiar than the relatively unfamiliar condition, and CBCA scores were significantly correlated with age. Results raise serious questions regarding the forensic suitability of the CBCA for assessing the veracity of children's accounts.