Search for dissertations about: "Witness psychology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 swedish dissertations containing the words Witness psychology.

  2. 1. Counting on the details: Inquiring into past events of cooperative interviewees

    Author : Rebecca M. Willén; Pär Anders Granhag; Leif Strömwall; Henry Otgaar; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Investigative interviewing; Amount of detail; Autobiographical and episodic memory; Open data; Open material; Repeated events; Statement analysis; Psychology;

    Abstract : Amount and quality of detail in recollections of past events are often studied in legal psychology. What, how much, and how accurate does a witness typically recall? How can we facilitate witnesses' recollections in police interviews? How can we detect deception? The overall aim of this thesis was to employ research with high ecological validity to investigate amount and quality of detail in interviews with cooperative adults. READ MORE

  4. 2. Recollection of Repeated Events : Difficulties and Possibilities

    Author : Rebecca M. Willén; Pär Anders Granhag; Leif Strömwall; Anna Stigsdotter Neely; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; Psykologi; Repeated events; Investigative interviewing; Mnemonics; Memory specificity;

    Abstract : Survey based research about self-reported incidents and legal investigations concerning sexual abuse, terrorism, and refugee status determination often involves reporting about self-experienced events that are similar to each other and has occurred repeatedly. Such repeated events tend to be recalled in a general manner and as a cluster of events. READ MORE

  5. 3. Justice needs a blindfold : Effects of defendants’ gender and attractiveness on judicial evaluation

    Author : Angela S. Ahola; Sven Å. Christianson; Leslie Zebrowitz; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; stereotype; gender; appearance; attractiveness; emotionality; violence; vividness; eye witness; memory; Cognitive science; Kognitionsforskning; Psychology; psykologi;

    Abstract : Gender and appearance affect our judgments regarding an individual’s personality, profession, and morality, and create a reference frame within which to act toward that person. The main question of the present thesis is whether these kinds of stereotypical conceptions have implications for the judicial process: how professionals within the judicial process evaluate and judge a defendant, and how and what eyewitnesses remember. READ MORE

  6. 4. Legal Practitioners’ Thoughts and Evaluations of Preschoolers’ Testimony in Child Sexual Abuse Cases

    Author : Emelie Ernberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Child sexual abuse; prosecution; children’s testimony;

    Abstract : Child sexual abuse (CSA) cases are notoriously difficult to investigate, prosecute and adjudicate. In Sweden it is estimated that only about one tenth of all reported CSA cases are prosecuted and CSA cases involving preschoolers are less likely to be prosecuted compared to cases involving older children. READ MORE

  7. 5. Realism of confidence in witness identification of faces and voices

    Author : Nils Olsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; eyewitness; earwitness; realism of confidence; calibration; Psykologi; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; psykologi;

    Abstract : One of the more alarming and intriguing results in forensic psychology is the weakrelationship between confidence and accuracy in experimental studies of eyewitnessidentification. This relationship has traditionally been measured by the point-biserialcorrelation coefficient, rpb. READ MORE