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tion of forgetting to recol- lection error, as well as about the role that lack of confidence in one's memory plays in resisting false suggestions (Loftus, 1996; Rubin & Wenzel, 1996; Wickens, 1998; Wixted, 2004). There are legitimate con- cerns that delay can lead to increased guessing, schema- driven

ildhood genital contact is paramount, with concerns about inac- curacies amplified when the adults have trauma histories (Conway, 2013; Howe, 2013; Loftus, 1996; Otgaar, Muds, Howe, & Merchkelback, 2017). Society is grappling with how to respond to such cases (D. A. Connolly, Chong, Coburn, & Lutgens

ncounters, including as intensified in vulner- able individuals by debated clinical techniques (Bot- toms, Shaver, & Goodman, 1996; Lilienfeld, 2015; Loftus, 1996). Yet clinical and memory theories should also address the matter of enduring memories for genital touch actually experienced in childhood.

rence in Time 2 report of adult sexual assault between those who had experienced child sexual abuse as of Time 1(19%) and those who had not (10%), Fisher's Exact Test, p = 0.285, ns. Time 2 participants Os = 30) were not significantly different from Time 1 participants who did not take part in the T

en though many studies have sought to document and give theoretical explana- tions for the fallibility of witness memory (see Goodman & Hahn, 1987; Loftus, 1979; Yarmcy, 1979, for reviews), only re- cently has research been conducted on police interview tech- niques to increase the completeness of a wit

er, R. P.. & Martin, D. W. (1970). Divided attention: a vehicle for monitoring memory pro- cesses. Journal of Expenmental Psychology 83. 164-17 I . Loftus, E. F. (1979). Eyewitness testimony Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Malpass, R. S.. & Devine, P G. (1980). Realism and eyewitness identi-

iselman, Fishes Cohen, et al., 1986). We then refined the technique on the basis of insights gained from analyzing tape-recorded field interviews2 (Fisher, Geiselman, & Raymond, 1987). In the revised version, which was evaluated in the present study. we approached the eyewitness's problem from the fo

call in a court of law. In response to the need to improve police interview tech- niques and to avoid the legal problems of hypnosis, Geiselman and Fisher (Geiselman, Fisher, Cohen, Holland, & Suites, 1986; Geiselman, Fisher, Firstenberg, Hutton, Sullivan, Avetissian, & Prosk, 1984; Geiselman, Fisher,

D. S. & Read, J. D. (1994). Psychotherapy and memories of childhood sexual abuse: A cognitive perspective. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 8 281-338. Loftus, E.F. & Palmer, J.C. (1974). Reconstruction of automobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory. Journal of Verbal

ime-relevant factors. Finally, the interview terminates with the pro forma, Is there anything else?—which invariably yields no new information (see Fisher, Geiselman, & Raymond, 1987, for a description of American police, and George & Clifford, 1992, for a similar description of British police). What

Two other studies have examined the CI with victims and witnesses of real-world crimes. In these field studies, one conducted in the United States (Fisher, Geiselman, & Amador 1989) and one EFTA01657053 conducted in England (George & Clifford, 1992), experienced police officers received training in

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f the US was "a muted celebration by people who are frustrated and strained, yet intriguingly, persistently hopeful about the future." According to Fisher, "A triple whammy of deadly disease, wholesale economic paralysis and a searing reckoning with racial inequality has largely canceled the nation's