Magali Ginet

• University of Clermont Auvergne

The Cognitive Interview for Suspects (CIS) is a recently designed information-gathering style interview method for interviewing suspects of crimes. Some components of this method (i.e., Mental context reinstatement, Report-everything inquiries) should make it possible to collect a large quantity of correct information, and to limit the misinformati...

The current study aimed at testing the impact of the cognitive interview for suspects (CIS) used by trained custom officers on the quantity of gathered details, compared to a control standard interview (SI) used by untrained officers. Forty‐five mock‐suspects were required to perform a series of actions and each was interviewed by a pair of customs...

This study examined the relevance of the cognitive interview (CI) for the recall of a road accident by actual victims, depending on the level of stress experienced at the time of the event. Fifty‐six victims (or witnesses) were interviewed, either with a CI or control interview, after completing a series of questionnaires including measures of thei...

Le principal objectif de cette étude était d’évaluer les perceptions d’agents des douanes françaises en matière d’audition de suspects. Étant donné le peu de formation théorique existant en France, il était attendu que ces agents déclarent utiliser des méthodes considérées comme néfastes, dans la littérature scientifique, pour le déroulement et l’e...

A context-driven analysis was performed to assess the quality of French investigative interviews with three age groups of child witnesses (under 7 years old, 7–10 years old, and 11–17 years old). We measured how age was related to the quality of 24 real-life interviews by evaluating how child-centered the interview was: (i) did it follow recommenda...

A context-driven analysis was performed to assess the quality of French investigative interviews with three age groups of child witnesses (under 7 years old, 7-10 years old, and 11- 17 years old). We measured how age was related to the quality of 24 real-life interviews by evaluating how child-centered the interview was: (i) did it follow recommend...

Eyewitness testimony may be contaminated by event-related information shared by other witnesses. The present study aimed to assess the influence of a modified cognitive interview (MCI) on the detrimental effects of what is called memory conformity. Participants watched a videotaped staged event. Immediately after this, they answered 22 questions ab...

The two present studies examined the influence of perspective instructions given during encoding and retrieval on the recall of a visual event. Participants viewed slides or a film depicting a day in the life of a man. Before viewing the to-be-remembered event, they were instructed to adopt the perspective of an alcoholic vs. an unemployed man vs....

The first aim of the present study was to assess the effect of stereotype threat on recall of a visual event involving cars by female witnesses. It was expected that stereotyped women (by the interviewer) would provide a poorer description of the cars involved than non-stereotyped women. The second aim was to test if a modified cognitive interview...

In a study concerned with driving behaviors of older drivers (mean age 70 years) in a driving simulator, our findings indicate that telling older drivers that they are more at risk of accidents because of their age and their driving performance-related decline (i.e., exposing them to a stereotype threat concerning older drivers) severely impairs th...

The modified cognitive interview (MCI) is an investigative interview method used to help child eyewitnesses to enhance the quality of their testimonies (Memon et al., 2010). Composed of cognitive (mnemonics) and social instructions, it indeed supports young witnesses to retrieve and to accurately report all their memories. If the benefits of the mn...

The main aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the cognitive interview as a function of the socio-economic status (SES) of preschool children. Seventy-five children aged 5 to 6 years, from low SES or high SES, attended a magic show. Three to four days later they were interviewed with a standard interview or a cognitive interview...

The main aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the cognitive interview as a function of the socio-economic status (SES) of preschool children. Seventy-five children aged 5 to 6 years, from low SES or high SES, attended a magic show. Three to four days later they were interviewed with a standard interview or a cognitive interview...

Résumé L’objectif principal de cette étude était d’étudier l’efficacité de l’entretien cognitif en fonction de l’origine sociale d’enfants d’âge préscolaire. Soixante-quinze enfants âgés de 5 à 6 ans, issus de milieux défavorisés ou favorisés, assistaient à un spectacle de magie. Trois à quatre jours plus tard, ils étaient entendus à l’aide d’un en...

This study examines the influence of familiarity on witnesses’ memory and the individual effectiveness of each of the four cognitive interview instructions in improving witnesses’ recall of scripted events. Participants (N = 195), either familiar or unfamiliar with the hospital script, were presented with a video of a surgical operation. One week l...

Since the Cognitive Interview (CI) was developed, many experiments have been published, but only two have investigated its efficacy in real criminal cases. Here, a Modified CI (MCI) is tested with real interviews in an inquisitor justice system. Several moderators and the interviewers' attitudes towards the CI/MCI are also examined. Eighty‐one witn...

Research showed that the four Cognitive Interview (CI) mnemonics used individually are unequally effective. We propose to test (i) their benefit when used within the same free recall phase and (ii) an original instruction, ‘guided peripheral focus’ (GPF). In two studies, 84 and 42 students were interviewed with Structured Interviews (SI), CIs or CI...

Two experiments were conducted to examine the effectiveness of the combination of instructions used in the Cognitive Interview (CI) and the effectiveness of a new mnemonic, the ‘cued recall’ (CR), on children's recall and suggestibility levels. In the first experiment, 229 children, ages 4–5 and 8–9, participated in a painting session. They were th...

RÉSUMÉ L'efficacité de l'Entretien Cognitif pour améliorer le recueil des té-moignages de très jeunes enfants concernant un Événement répété a été évaluée. Soixante-quatre enfants âgés de 4 à 5 ans participaient à un atelier de peinture cela, soit à une seule reprise, soit à quatre reprises. Deux jours plus tard, les enfants étaient entendus à l'ai...

The effectiveness of the Cognitive Interview to improve very young children' testimonies of a repeated event was assessed. Sixty-four children, ages 4-5, participated in a painting session either once or four times. Two days later, they were interviewed about the last session (i.e., the sole session for those who lived the event once) with either a...

Is the Cognitive Interview efficient on very young children’s ability to testify about an occurrence of a repeated event? The effectiveness of the Cognitive Interview to improve very young children’ testimonies of a repeated event was assessed. Sixty-four children, ages 4-5, participated in a painting session either once or four times. Two days lat...

This research investigated whether a witness's emotion could influence the accuracy of statements obtained by the use of a cognitive interview. A total of 70 first-year university students viewed a video depicting a road accident. Electrodes were attached to their arms in order to send fictitious electric shocks during the video (high-arousal condi...

In M. F. Kaplan & A. M. Martin Rodriguez (Eds.)

This article addresses the strengths and weaknesses of social psychology as a discipline. We will discuss the changes in research methodologies that occurred during the last decades and the implications for modern social psychological research. We will also discuss the relationships social psychologists entertain with researchers from other discipl...

The objective in the introduction of this special issue about inter-group relations will be to give an overview of the most significant work in this domain through the presentation of concepts and fundamental processes in social psychology at a group level. The different authors contributing to this issue will be situated in the approaches which ha...

The goal of this study is to explore the influence of stereotypes on the memory of eyewitnesses. In this study, boys and girls from secondary school (N = 101) observed a videotape depicting an encounter between a man and a woman who meet in a bar and ends with an attempted rape. Prior to viewing the film, they read a booklet in which the victim's o...

The introduction to this special issue attempts to bring out the wealth of social psychology research on the self by presenting the three most fruitful approaches in this field and situating the contributions of the nine articles of the special issue. In addressing the self as a cognitive structure, as a biased information-processing system, and as...

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Scientific literature contains only little information about cognitive processes or strategies used in person description and the manner to improve it (see Finger and Pezdek, 1999, for an enhancement technique based on the cognitive interview). In fact, it becomes necessary to understand how this particular kind of task is organized before creating...

. [avec la participation de R. Finkelstein, C. Mazé & M. Quentin, Université Paris X, K. Douchet, Université Paris X, S. Bordel, Université de Rennes, N. Lepastourel & B. Testé, Université de Rennes].

[avec la participation de C. Greffeuille, M. Ginet & S. Guimond, Université Blaise-Pascal, J. Py, J. Allione, S. Demarchi, M. Ginet & C. Biland, Université Paris 8 et Blaise Pascal, A. Somat & C. Boisrame, Université de Rennes, N. Gueguen & A. Pascual, Université de Bretagne-Sud-IUT Vannes et Université de Bordeaux 2]

The purpose of this study was to field test a new procedure for interviewing witnesses aimed at improving the memory of the person interviewed: The Cognitive Interview. The theoretical bases of this technique were drawn from models of human memory, particularly Tulving's (1983) encoding specificity hypothesis and the concept of context. The Cogniti...

The purpose of this research was to field test two procedures for enhance eyewitnesses memories : the Cognitive Interview and cognitive encoding. While we can expect the cognitive interview and cognitive encoding techniques to enhance recall, that is to say to allow witnesses to recall more correct informations without increasing the number of erro...

Replicated previous findings concerning the cognitive interview, a technique designed to improve eyewitness testimony by enhancing the recall phase, and to present the 1st empirical evidence in support of cognitive encoding, a new technique which employs several strategies of the cognitive interview, but which deals with the phase of encoding. Ss w...