Post event discussion

Cards (2)

  • Gabber et al (2003) - Investigated post event discussion on ewt.
    60 university students & 60 older adults from the community.
    • pps saw a vid of a girl stealing money from a wallet. pps tested individually(control group) or in pairs (co-witness group). Co-witness pps told they'd watched the same video but they'd seen different perspectives of the same crime. Only one person witnessed the girl stealing.
    co-witness group discussed the crime then completed a questionnaire, testing their memory of the event
    Found: 71% of witnesses in the co-witness group recalled info they hadn't seen.
  • Evaluation of Gabber's research into post event discussion
    + High internal validity - lab experiment, cause and effect can be established
    + High ecological validity - real life appl