{"id":361749,"date":"2018-05-18T09:37:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T08:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-is-this-the-future-of-interrogation\/"},"modified":"2018-05-18T09:37:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T08:37:08","slug":"prison-planet-com-is-this-the-future-of-interrogation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-is-this-the-future-of-interrogation\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Is this the future of interrogation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5737767\/Virtual-cops-better-getting-witness-statements-real-thing-study-finds.html\"><strong>Daily Mail<\/strong><\/a><br \/>May 17, 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><strong>Eyewitness accounts may be far more reliable when conducted by a virtual police officer, rather than the real thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Witnesses of a mock car theft provided as much as 60 percent more information when interviewed in an avatar-to-avatar context compared to face-to-face interviews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Giving testimony to the police can be stressful and intimidating. Previous studies have shown that multiple factors \u2013 including an unfamiliar setting, the police officer, or the desire to \u2018perform well\u2019 \u2013 can decrease the accuracy of a witness\u2019 testimony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Witnesses can become distracted from the task of remembering during an interview because they are attending to the social behavior of the interviewer, such as facial expressions. Such behaviors can negatively affect witness memory performance,\u2019 said Professor Coral Dando of the University of Westminster in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018My research explores interviewing in non-traditional contexts to support complex cognition such as long-term memory \u2013 reducing the task demands by managing the environment to allow people to concentrate on one task at a time.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5737767\/Virtual-cops-better-getting-witness-statements-real-thing-study-finds.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Thursday, May 17, 2018  at  6:40 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/is-this-the-future-of-interrogation.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/is-this-the-future-of-interrogation.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily MailMay 17, 2018 Eyewitness accounts may be far more reliable when conducted by a virtual police officer, rather than the real thing. Witnesses of a mock car theft provided as much as 60 percent more information when interviewed in an avatar-to-avatar context compared to face-to-face interviews. 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