Anne M. Ridley & Fiona Gabbert 
Suggestibility in Legal Contexts [PDF ebook] 
Psychological Research and Forensic Implications

Contributors ix
Series Preface xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xv
1 Suggestibility: A History and Introduction 1
Anne M. Ridley
2 The Misinformation Effect: Past Research and Recent Advances 21
Quin M. Chrobak and Maria S. Zaragoza
3 Interrogative Suggestibility and Compliance 45
Gisli H. Gudjonsson
4 Suggestibility and Memory Conformity 63
Fiona Gabbert and Lorraine Hope
5 Suggestibility and Individual Differences: Psychosocial and Memory Measures 85
Anne M. Ridley and Gisli H. Gudjonsson
6 Recovered Memories and Suggestibility for Entire Events 107
James Ost
7 Suggestibility and Individual Differences in Typically Developing and Intellectually Disabled Children 129
Kamala London, Lucy A. Henry, Travis Conradt and Ryan Corser
8 Suggestibility in Vulnerable Groups: Witnesses with Intellectual Disability, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Older People 149
Katie L. Maras and Rachel Wilcock
9 Acute Suggestibility in Police Interrogation: Self-regulation Failure as a Primary Mechanism of Vulnerability 171
Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo
10 Suggestibility and Witness Interviewing using the Cognitive Interview and NICHD Protocol 197
David J. La Rooy, Deirdre Brown and Michael E. Lamb
11 Suggestibility in Legal Contexts: What Do We Know? 217
Anne M. Ridley, Fiona Gabbert and David J. La Rooy
Index 229

Anne Ridley is Principal Lecturer in Psychology at London
South Bank University, UK, with particular interest in individual
differences in witness suggestibility as well as strategies for
supporting vulnerable witnesses in the legal system. In 2008 she
was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education
Academy.
Fiona Gabbert is a Reader in Psychology at the University
of Abertay Dundee, UK. She is an expert in the area of social
influences on memory, and has published widely on this topic,
including a chapter on ‘memory conformity’ in the
current book. Another of Fiona’s interests is developing
methods to obtain reliable evidence from eyewitnesses. She received
an Academic Excellence Award for ‘Outstanding Achievements in
the Area of Investigative Interviewing’ in 2011.
David La Rooy is a Reader in Psychology at the University
of Abertay Dundee, UK. He is also a Scottish Institute for Policing
Research Lecturer and his research focuses on issues surrounding
the forensic interviewing of children. He teaches evidence-based
investigative-interviewing and oversees the university’s
degree course in Forensic Psychobiology.