Child witnesses in the New Zealand criminal courts [pdf, 795 KB]
...open- ended, free-recall questions (e.g., Tell me about X) are more likely to be accurate than responses to other question types (Lamb, Hershkowitz, Orbach, & Esplin, 2008). Closed questions (that license a yes or no response: Did you go to the park?) and leading questions (that indicate the expected response, including tagged questions: He didn’t do it, did he?) can be risky (Lamb & Fauchier, 2001; Orbach & Lamb, 2001; Walker, 1999; Waterman, Blades, & Spencer, 2001)...