Can private reports enhance children's event recall, lower their suggestibility and foster their metacognitive monitoring compared to face-to-face interviews?

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 749-769

  Roebers, Claudia M ^a   Howie, Pauline ^b   Beuscher, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children; Development; Event recall; Interview

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; CONDITION MONITORING; DECISION MAKING; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

CHILDREN; EVENT RECALL; INTERVIEW; METACOGNITIVE MONITORING; SOCIAL MANIPULATIONS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 33747786968     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2004.11.007     Document Type: Article

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