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gh levels of accuracy in the allegations the children made. The level of support for the girls' allegations compared well with results obtained by Yuille and Cutsall (1986) in their case study of 13 adult witnesses to a shooting. In their study, there were seven witnesses who were centrally or activel

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nitive interview. Journal of Police Science and Administration 14, 31-39. Geiselman, R. E, Fisher, R. P., Firstenberg, I., Hutton, L. A., Sullivan, S. J., Avetissian, I. V., & Prosk, A. L. (1984). Enhancement of eyewitness memory: An empirical evaluation of the cognitive interview. Journal of Police

ilitate communication when these mental records have been activated. The recommended questioning sequence, which is common to the Step- wise method (Yuille, Hunter, Joffe, & Zaparniuk, 1993) and the Memorandum of Good Practice (Home Office, 2002), is to progress from asking open-ended questions to more

tive Interview. Journal of Police Science and Adminis- tration. le. 31-39. Geiselman, R. E., Fisher, R. P. Firstenbag, I., Hutton, L. A., Sullivan, S. J., Avetissius I. V., & Prosk, A. L. (1984). Enhancement of mewit- ness memory: An empirical evaluation of the Cognitive Interview. Journal of PoliceSc

(1987) recently analyzed several police hypnosis interviews and found that interviewers frequently used some components of the Cognitive Interview. Yuille and Kim concluded that "the advantage of hypnosis found in the present study has nothing to do with hypnosis. . . . [Instead) the cognitive intervi