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Interrogative suggestibility, confabulation, and acquiescence in people with mild learning disabilities (mental handicap): implications for reliability during police interrogations
- Authors:
- CLARE I.C.H., GUDJONSSON G.H.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 32(3), September 1993, pp.295-301.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
A way of assessing a criminal suspect's ability to make a reliable statement is through measuring performance on interrogative suggestibility, confabulation and acquiescence. Preliminary data is presented for people with mild learning disabilities on these three factors and as expected the intellectually disadvantaged group performed more poorly than their average ability counterparts on each of the three measures.