‘We'll Take It from Here’: The Effect of Changing Interviewers in Information Gathering Interviews

摘要: Summary: A common strategy in interviewing is to repeatedly focus on the same topics, for example by asking recall an event first chronological order and then reverse order. We examined effect of changing interviewers between two questions or keeping throughout cues deception. Truth tellers may be most encouraged again what they have witnessed when confronted with new interviewers, as these not heard their story before. Liars realising that will check consistency answers. The impact should lead more pronounced differences truth liars terms detail repetition ‘Changed Interviewers’ condition compared ‘Same condition. Participants were interviewed about a mock security meeting attended. In half interviews, remained throughout, other half, took over half-way through. As predicted, Changing during interview effectively differentiates respect repetition. discuss this finding its place within investigative deception detection literature. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. employed investigators topics (Fisher, 2010). This technique aimed at giving interviewees chance say everything know ensure nothing missed. One way achieve question different format, interviewee (Fisher Geiselman, 1992). Although invitation mostly used interviews collective witnesses 2010), it has also been suspects (Geiselman, 2012). present experiment, we (mock) suspects. particularly interested whether using stages can heighten verbal liars. looked (i) having ask both normal Stage Two (‘Same condition) (ii) after so who are from (‘Changed condition). For tellers, introduction elicit information. Anderson Pichert (1978) showed recalling perspective stimulates think again, subsequently evoking Similarly, presence