Evidence-based investigative interviewing: applying cognitive principles (1st)

For as long as we have been researching human memory, psychologists have been investigating how people remember and forget.

This research is regularly drawn upon in our legal systems.

Historically, we have relied upon eyewitness memory to help judge responsibility and adjudicate truth, but memory is malleable, prone to error, and susceptible to bias.

Even confident eyewitnesses make mistakes, and even accurate witnesses sometimes find their testimony subjected to harsh scrutiny.

Emerging from this environment, the Cognitive Interview (CI) became a means of assisting cooperative witnesses with recalling more information without sacrificing accuracy.