Saykaly Christine, Crossman Angela, Talwar Victoria
Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC Canada.
Department of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice CUNY, New York, NY, USA.
Psychiatr Psychol Law. 2016 Aug 22;24(2):278-291. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2016.1197816. eCollection 2017.
The current study used a high cognitive load cross-examination procedure to determine whether this would improve undergraduate students' ability to detect deception in children aged 9 to 12 years. The participants ( = 88) were asked to determine whether children's accounts of an event included a true denial, false denial, true assertion or false assertion about a game played during a home visit occurring one week prior. Overall, the high cognitive load cross-examination did not improve detection rates, in that participants were at chance level for both direct examination (49.4%) and cross-examination (52.3%). Accuracy for true stories was greater than for false stories. Cross-examination improved the detection rates of the false stories, but worsened the accuracy for the true stories. The participants did however rate younger children's true reports to be more credible and believable than their false reports. Participants rated older children's false reports as more credible and believable than their true reports.
当前的研究采用了高认知负荷交叉询问程序，以确定这是否会提高本科生识别9至12岁儿童欺骗行为的能力。参与者（n = 88）被要求确定儿童对一周前家访期间玩的一场游戏的描述是对该事件的真实否认、虚假否认、真实断言还是虚假断言。总体而言，高认知负荷交叉询问并未提高检测率，因为参与者在直接询问（49.4%）和交叉询问（52.3%）中的表现均处于随机水平。真实故事的准确率高于虚假故事。交叉询问提高了虚假故事的检测率，但降低了真实故事的准确率。然而，参与者确实认为年幼儿童的真实报告比虚假报告更可信、更可靠。参与者认为年长儿童的虚假报告比真实报告更可信、更可靠。
