假陪审员对智障儿童提供的目击者报告的看法
Kealyn McDowell1, Joshua Wyman2, Victoria Talwar3
1Department of Psychology, King's University College at Western University, London, ON, Canada. kmcdow9@uwo.ca.
Journal of autism and developmental disorders
|September 26, 2024
概括
假陪审员在智力障碍的儿童目击者中显示出类似的谎言检测准确度,无论他们是否披露了残疾. 低可信度的感知并不一定转化为虚假的判断.
科学领域:
- 法医心理学 法医心理学
- 儿童见证人证词的证词
- 关于残疾人的研究.
背景情况:
- 之前的研究表明,当假陪审员知道孩子的残疾时,可能会出现目击者信誉偏见.
- 了解智力障碍如何影响儿童目击者的看法,对于法律诉讼至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查虚假陪审员对智力障碍儿童证词的谎言检测准确度和可信度评估.
- 为了确定告知假陪审员关于孩子的残疾诊断是否会影响他们对证词的评估.
主要方法:
- 217名成年模拟陪审员评估了四份来自被诊断患有智力障碍的儿童 (10-15岁) 的采访成绩单.
- 一半的假陪审员在评估之前就被告知了孩子的残疾状况.
- 参与者对每个目击者报告的可信度和真实性进行了评价.
主要成果:
- 假陪审员对智力障碍儿童目击者的谎言检测准确度 (55.76%) 与典型发育儿童的研究相美.
- 在被告知或未被告知儿童残疾的模拟陪审员之间,没有发现谎言检测准确度或可信度等级的显著差异.
- 虽然假陪审员认为这些证词不太可信,但他们犹不决地将其标记为虚假.
结论:
- 告知虚假陪审员关于智力障碍似乎并没有独立地恶化对儿童目击者的看法.
- 调查结果表明,假陪审员可能会谨慎地驳回智力障碍儿童的证词,即使他们的可信度较低.
- 这项研究有助于了解儿童目击证人叙述的法律评估中的偏见和看法.
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