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Memory errors in Police Interviews: The Bait Question as a Source of Misinformation
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Description: The manual of the Reid Technique (Inbau et al., 2013) describes the bait question as “present[ing] to the subject a plausible probability of existence of some evidence implicating him in the crime. Its intended purpose is to entice a deceptive subject to change… an earlier denial…” (p. 171). The bait question could be the misinformation effect in action. An observer of an interview (such as a juror) could come to believe that the hypothetical evidence referenced in a bait question is indeed real. This purpose of this project is to test the hypothesis that bait questions can serve as a vehicle for misinformation.
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Police Reports
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