Karla J. Doepke, Angela L. Henderson, & Thomas S. Critchfield (2003).
Social antecedents of children's eyewitness testimony: A single-subject experimental analysis.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis,
36, 459-463.
In a laboratory simulation, a single-subject design was used to examine
the effects of two types
of social influence on children's eyewitness testimony, which
has not been the subject of
systematic behavioral analyses. This study replicates and
extends findings from group-
comparison studies, and shows that a topic of pressing
social importance is amenable to analysis
at the individual level, and therefore, potentially, a behavioral analysis.
DESCRIPTORS: eyewitness testimony, children, single-subject design,
verbal reports