The Cognitive Interview: Effects on the realism in witnesses’ confidence in their free recall
This study compared the realism of witnesses’ confidence judgments of their own recall elicited in either the Cognitive Interview (CI) or the Structured Interview (SI). Calibration methodology was used to analyze the realism of the confidence judgments. Participants (N = 56) were interviewed about their observations of a staged crime and returned two weeks later to assess their confidence in the