Lucy Akehurst
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Who Said What? The Effects of Cognitive Load on Source Monitoring and Memory for Multiple witnesses' Accounts Open
Investigative interviewers are often required to accurately remember information that has been provided by different people. This can be at the scene of an event or during follow‐up investigations in interview rooms. Interviewers must accu…
Police officers' perceptions and experiences of promoting honesty in child victims and witnesses Open
Purpose This two‐phase study employed a mixed‐methods design to explore UK police officers' perceptions and experiences of promoting honesty in child witnesses with a special focus on the recommended inclusion of Truth‐Lies Discussions (TL…
The Relationship Between Olfactory Function and Emotional Contagion Open
Introduction Research has provided evidence for the transfer of single emotions including anger, anxiety and happiness through olfactory chemosignals, yet no work has examined the role of odour function in the aggregation of more complex e…
The effects of drawing on preschoolers' statements about experienced and non‐experienced events Open
Summary Although drawing is frequently used during investigative interviews, few studies have explored the effectiveness of draw‐and‐talk techniques with very young children. In this article, we examined the effects of drawing on preschool…
Preschoolers’ true and false reports: Comparing effects of the Sequential Interview and NICHD protocol Open
Purpose The current study aimed to examine a Norwegian technique for conducting investigative interviews with preschoolers: the Sequential Interview (SI). The SI advocates for increased initial rapport building and includes a pre‐determine…
The effects of cognitive load during an investigative interviewing task on mock interviewers’ recall of information Open
Purpose Although investigative interviewers receive training in interviewing techniques, they often fail to comply with recommended practices. Interviewers are required to actively listen, accurately remember information, think of question…
An examination of the <span>Self‐Administered</span> Interview as a verbal veracity assessment tool Open
Summary The self‐administered interview (SAI) is a written eyewitness recall tool that elicits more information from cooperative witnesses than written free recall (WFR) formats. To date, SAI research has examined the accounts of cooperati…
Veracity is in the eye of the beholder: A lens model examination of consistency and deception Open
Summary Research has attempted to explain perceived cues to deception based upon self‐report of what participants believe are ‘good’ cues to deception, or self‐report of what cues participants say they base their veracity judgements on. Ho…
Forensic interviewers’ experiences of interviewing children of different ages Open
Increased knowledge about practitioners’ experiences of conducting forensic child interviews may provide valuable insights into the perceived challenges they encounter when questioning children. This mixed-methods study examined Swedish pr…
Can rapport building strategies, age, and question type influence preschoolers’ disclosures of adult wrongdoing? Open
In the present experiment, we examined preschoolers’ disclosures of a secret as a function of rapport building strategies used in Scandinavian field settings (verbal rapport building vs. prop rapport building), age in months (33–75 months)…
Police Interviewers’ Perceptions of Child Credibility in Forensic Investigations Open
During investigative interviews, police practice can influence key aspects of child credibility, namely the accuracy, competency, reliability, and truthfulness of their testimony. To date, police interviewers' perceptions of how best to as…
Is threat in the way they move? Influences of static and gait information on threat judgments of unknown people Open
Recognising intraspecies threat is essential for survival. However, this needs to be balanced against the undue avoidance of unknown others who may be useful to us. Research has shown that judgments of ‘aggression’ and ‘threat’ posed by an…
A state of high anxiety: how non-supportive interviewers can increase the suggestibility of child witnesses Open
The present study examined the effects of state and trait anxiety on 8–11 year old children's susceptibility to misleading post-event information. Participants' state and trait anxiety were measured, after which they watched an extract fro…
Investigating deception in second language speakers: Interviewee and assessor perspectives Open
Purpose The first of two experiments investigated the effect that speaking in a non‐native language has on interviewees’ perceptions of their interview experience. A second experiment investigated evaluators’ perceptions of the credibility…
Staying streetwise: Accurate judgments of approaching aggression in older age Open
The extant literature has generally demonstrated that young adults can detect the trait aggression of another person with limited information. However, there is little research that investigates the life course persistence of aggression de…
CCTV Observation: The Effects of Event Type and Instructions on Fixation Behaviour in an Applied Change Blindness Task Open
Summary Little is known about how observers' scanning strategies affect performance when monitoring events in closed‐circuit television (CCTV) footage. We examined the fixation behaviour of change detectors and non‐detectors monitoring dyn…
Judging Credibility of a Road Traffic Accident Claimant Open
The ‘holy grail’ of being able to assess reliability and truthfulness is investigated one step further via this case study utilising a credibility checklist with a road traffic accident claimant. The possibility of operationalising unrelia…
‘Look This Way’: Using Gaze Maintenance to Facilitate the Detection of Children's False Reports Open
Summary In two experiments, we investigated whether imposing a secondary task is an effective technique for detecting child deceit. First, 85 children aged 8 to 11 years old provided either a true or false report of a recent school event. …