When interviewing witnesses to a crime, police interviewers seek to maximize the amount of information that a cooperating eyewitness can give them so that they can generate leads to follow, confirm or disconfirm .
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The author doesn’t suggest that hypnotic interviews produce “more” inaccurate information compared to accurate information. Although it can lead to less overall accuracy, that doesn’t mean most of the information provided is inaccurate. For example, going from 90% accurate to 80% accurate is still a decrease in accuracy.
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The “false confidence” effect refers to the witnesses’ confidence, not the interviewers’ confidence.
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There’s no evidence that interviewers are unable to attempt detects at deception. Deception isn’t discussed.
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There’s no evidence that hypnosis becomes less effective over the course of the interview.
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