cognitive interview: Does it successfully avoid the dangers of forensic hypnosis?, The

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis,  Jul 2005  by Wickramsekera, Ian II

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Whitehouse, W., Orne, E., Dinges, D., Bates, B., Nadon, R., Orne, M. (2005). The cognitive interview: Does it successfully avoid the dangers of forensic hypnosis? American Journal of Psychology 118 (2), 213-225. In this experiment the authors examined the influence of hypnosis and interrogation upon confabulation and erroneous recall in memory.

Seventy-two undergraduates were shown a videotape in which a bank robbery took place that resulted in the shooting of a young boy. The participants were subsequently interviewed about their recollections of the film several days later. Baseline oral and written recall of the narrative events was established followed by random assignment to a hypnosis condition, the cognitive interview (CI), or a motivated, repeated recall (MRR) control interview. The results indicated that subjects in the hypnosis condition generally had greater productivity in recall than in the CI or the MRR interview. The authors attributed this difference primarily to report criterion differences rather than differences in their accessible memory. Individual differences in hypnotic ability were associated with erroneous and confabulatory recall in the hypnosis and CI conditions but not in the MRR condition. The authors interpreted their findings to indicate that some methods of CI may invoke hypnotic-like processes in hypnotizable people. E-mail address for reprints: wayne.whitehouse@temple.edu

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