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The extent to which procedural information can predict vulnerable individuals’ level of rapport and shared truthful information within investigative interviews
Lauber, P. (2022) The extent to which procedural information can predict vulnerable individuals’ level of rapport and shared truthful information within investigative interviews.
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| Abstract: | The police must solve a variety of cases daily and depend on effective work with victims, witnesses, and suspects to gather information. Therefore, conducting investigative interviews is crucial (Clarke & Milne, 2017). Vulnerable individuals experience a great disadvantage in such social interactions, and issues like higher suggestibility, lack of understanding, and vagueness in answers may occur (Gudjonsson, 2010; Gudjonsson, 2018; Herrington & Roberts, 2012). Providing procedural information about the nature of the interview, a definition of interrogations, understandable legal rights, and simplifying the language of communicating legal rights in the interview can counteract issues vulnerable individuals experience and therefore decrease situational stress (Eastwood et al., 2014; Green et al., 2008; Newburn et al., 2012). This study examined the effects of providing procedural information on rapport as well as on information provision. The relationship between rapport and truthful information will be additionally tested for. A between-subject-design with two conditions (receiving procedural information versus not receiving procedural information) was used. 62 participants conducted re-enacted investigative interviews followed by a questionnaire measuring rapport. The findings suggest that procedural information do not impact the level of rapport and the shared truthful information. Also, scores of rapport are in no correlation with information provision. Tendencies were found in neurotypicals having higher scores of rapport when not receiving procedural information and neurodiverse scoring higher on rapport when receiving procedural information. Also, neurodiverse individuals tend to share more true information than neurotypical individuals when receiving procedural information. This suggests that neurodiverse individuals might benefit more from receiving procedural information than neurotypicals do. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/91550 |
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