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Fisher, Cohen, Holland, & Suites, 1986; Geiselman, Fisher, Firstenberg, Hutton, Sullivan, Avetissian, & Prosk, 1984; Geiselman, Fisher, MacKinnon, & Holland, 1985) developed a nonhypnotic interview procedure based on gener- ally accepted scientific principles of memory.' The resulting procedure, called

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

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