Table 1 Overview of credibility, metacognition, and belief ratings per condition.
From: Knowledge of legal professionals about age trends in false memory propensity: a vignette study
Spontaneous | Suggestion-induced | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
6-years-old n = 22 | 22-years-old n = 32 | 6-years-old n = 25 | 22-years-old n = 23 | |||||
M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
Credibility ratings | ||||||||
Credibility assessmenta | 4.53 | 1.44 | 4.38 | 1.20 | 4.33 | 1.01 | 4.24 | 0.96 |
4. How likely do you think Vicky’s father is guilty? | 5.14 | 1.28 | 5.03 | 1.15 | 5.12 | 1.05 | 4.57 | 0.84 |
5. How likely do you think is it that Vicky formed a false memory? | 3.27 | 1.39 | 2.25 | 1.22 | 3.60 | 1.44 | 3.30 | 1.43 |
Metacognition ratings | ||||||||
8. How much was your judgment influenced by intuition? | 3.32 | 1.67 | 2.97 | 1.93 | 4.16 | 1.46 | 3.17 | 1.83 |
9. How much was your judgment influenced by experience? | 4.73 | 1.67 | 4.66 | 1.84 | 4.88 | 1.36 | 3.87 | 1.55 |
10. How much was your judgment influenced by knowledge? | 4.50 | 1.63 | 3.97 | 1.51 | 3.56 | 1.66 | 3.65 | 1.77 |
11. How much did Vicky’s age influence your credibility ratings? | 4.64 | 1.68 | 3.94 | 1.52 | 5.12 | 1.36 | 3.52 | 1.53 |
12. How much did the fact that Vicky had not had contact with any other person/had called her grandmother before she talked to the police, influence your credibility ratings? | 5.55 | 1.22 | 4.91 | 1.42 | 5.60 | 1.32 | 4.09 | 1.28 |
13. How useful do you think it would be to ask a memory expert for his or her opinion on the credibility of Vicky’s statement? | 4.55 | 2.06 | 3.63 | 2.20 | 4.72 | 2.19 | 3.74 | 1.98 |
Belief ratings | ||||||||
14. In your opinion, compared to adults, are children generally more or less likely to develop a spontaneous false memory? | 4.55 | 1.26 | 4.09 | 1.57 | 5.00 | 1.26 | 4.91 | 1.04 |
15. Compared to adults, are children generally more or less likely to develop a suggestion-induced false memory? | 5.18 | 1.10 | 4.78 | 1.54 | 5.12 | 1.24 | 5.00 | 1.21 |
