Clothed and unclothed human figure drawings lead to more correct and incorrect reports of touch in children

Otgaar, Henry; Horselenberg, Robert; Kampen, Ris van; Lalleman, Karina

doi:10.1080/1068316x.2010.532129

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“…Our result implies that legal professionals should not immediately resort to the use of these drawings as long as we have no clear answer about the circumstances when making drawings do or do not affect accuracy. In a sense, our results are related to work showing that other props such as dolls and human figure drawings also increase the reporting of erroneous details (e.g., Otgaar et al 2012). Future research should look more closely on whether drawing might foster the reporting of incorrect information by conducting studies similar as ours but including more realistic stimuli (e.g., interactive events).…”

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confidence: 48%

“…Following this, children had to show on the human figure drawing where they had been touched. In one of our studies (Otgaar et al 2012), 4/5-year-olds and 9/10-year-olds were involved in a staged event in which measurements of 10 body parts (e.g., soles of the feet) were taken. Immediately or after a delay of three weeks, children had to report where they were touched.…”

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Improving Children’s Interviewing Methods? The Effects of Drawing and Practice on Children’s Memories for an Event

Otgaar

Ansem

Pauw

et al. 2016

J Police Crim Psych

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In the present experiment, we were interested in the effects of drawings and practice on children's memory performance. Younger (6/7-year-olds; n = 37) and older (11/12-yearolds; n = 44) children were presented with two videos that differed in complexity. Half of the children had to practice recalling an experienced event (i.e., last holiday) before remembering the two videos. The other half was not presented with such practice. Then, all children had to tell what they could still recollect about the first video. For the second video, all children were allowed to draw and tell during the recollection of the event. As expected, we found that for the complex video, making a drawing increased the completeness of children's statements, but also reduced the accuracy of their statements. Although we found that including practice reduced the completeness of statements, it did not negatively impact the accuracy of children's memory reports. Taken together, our results imply that interviewers should be cautious in using drawings as an interviewing method as it might elevate the production of incorrect information.

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Improving Children’s Interviewing Methods? The Effects of Drawing and Practice on Children’s Memories for an Event

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Pauw

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J Police Crim Psych

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“…First, the accuracy of information is usually unknown in field studies, leading to the possibility that the added information produced by body diagrams and specific questions included false information that decreased the overall accuracy of reports. In fact, this is exactly what a laboratory study that mimicked the design of the field studies found (Otgaar, Horselenberg, van Kapen, & Lalleman, 2011). Second, children and adults alike tend to provide more information with additional recall attempts, so these studies do not reveal what children would have reported had interviewers shifted gears in some other way (for example, by taking a break or turning briefly to neutral topics) before asking additional questions.…”

Section: Body Diagramssupporting

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Divining testimony? The impact of interviewing props on children’s reports of touching

Poole

Bruck

2012

Developmental Review

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There is a long-held assumption that objects help bridge the gap between what children know and what they can (or are willing to) explain. In this review, we present research on the extent to which two types of objects used as props in investigative interviews of children, anatomical dolls and body (human figure) diagrams, actually help children report accurate information about autobiographical events. We explain why available research does not instill confidence that props are the best solution to interviewing challenges, and we consider practitioners’ and policy-makers responses to this evidence. Finally, we discuss the types of developmental research that are necessary to advance the field of evidence-based interviewing of children.

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“…This ability is very important in forensic interviewing (Korkman et al 2008). Therefore, for future research, in order to evaluate interviewing skills, researchers could design an experimental study with a staged-event paradigm to provide opportunity to pose follow-up questions based on previous disclosed information (London et al 2009;Otgaar et al 2012).…”

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The Quality of Forensic Child Interviewing in Child Sexual Abuse Cases in Indonesia

Sumampouw

Otgaar

Rooy

et al. 2019

J Police Crim Psych

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Most of the foregoing research on child investigative interviewing has focused on interview practices in Western countries, thus potentially limiting the generalizability and application of the findings to improve interview practices in non-Western countries. The current studies are the first to examine police interviewing practices involving alleged child sexual abuse (CSA) victims in Indonesia which has marked cultural differences compared with Western countries. In Study 1, we presented Indonesian police child interviewers (N = 26) with a sexual abuse case vignette concerning a 7-year-old girl. Police interviewers were asked to write down the questions they would pose to the child. We categorized questions into four types: open-prompts, directives, optionposing, and suggestive. In Study 2, we examined Indonesian police files (N = 24) containing child sexual abuse interviews and also scored the type of questions used as per the first study. We compared our data with those obtained in Western countries. The consistent finding in both studies is that Indonesian police interviewers rarely used open-prompts, asked more directive and option-posing questions. Consistent with findings from Western countries, our studies provide indirect evidence that openprompts may be infrequently used by forensic child interviewers in Indonesia.

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Clothed and unclothed human figure drawings lead to more correct and incorrect reports of touch in children

Cited by 18 publications

References 21 publications

Improving Children’s Interviewing Methods? The Effects of Drawing and Practice on Children’s Memories for an Event

Improving Children’s Interviewing Methods? The Effects of Drawing and Practice on Children’s Memories for an Event

Divining testimony? The impact of interviewing props on children’s reports of touching

The Quality of Forensic Child Interviewing in Child Sexual Abuse Cases in Indonesia

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