The field of children's testimony is in turmoil, but a resolution to seemingly intractable
debates now appears attainable. In this review, the authors place the current disagreement …

OBJECTIVE: To show how the results of research on children's memory, communicative
skills, social knowledge, and social tendencies can be translated into guidelines that …

Represents a scholarly and ambitious attempt to improve the quality of interviews received
by the courts and minimize the risks of miscarriages of justice, for victims and defendants …

Investigation of child abuse is often hampered by doubts about the reliability of children as
only sources of information. Over the last decade, consensus has been reached about …

From amnesia, intrusive memories, and depersonalization, to auditory hallucinations, trance-
like states, and disturbances in identity, the symptoms of pathological dissociation are …

Findings from research on false memory have major implications for a number of fields
central to human welfare, such as medicine and law. Although many important conclusions …

This article reviews recent advances in understanding the changes in memory function that
take place during the childhood years. Development of the following aspects of memory are …

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a structured interview protocol (NICHD
Investigative Interview Protocol) operationalizing universally recommended guidelines for …

To elucidate age differences in responses to free-recall prompts (ie, invitations and cued
invitations) and focused recognition prompts (ie, option-posing and suggestive utterances) …

One hundred alleged victims of child sexual abuse (ages 4–12 years; M= 8.1 years) were
interviewed by police investigators about their alleged experiences. Half of the children were …