Eyewitness testimony: an exploration of question wording upon recall as a function of neuroticism.
Two experiments are reported in which subjects viewed films and were interrogated with questions employing the definite or the indefinite article. A significant interaction existed betweed a witness's level of neuroticism and question wording. There were also significant correlations between Neuroticism and errors resulting from questions containing the indefinite article.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D014796:Visual Perception