EYEWITNESS RECALL AND DURATION ESTIMATES IN-FIELD SETTINGS

Witnesses were tested for either interrogative recall or narrative rec all of a young woman to whom they had spoken for approximately 15 s, 2 min earlier. Interrogative responses were more complete and more accu rate, but also more error prone than narrative responses. Men and wome n showed similar performance on most characteristics, but men were mor e confident in their responses. A negative correlation was found betwe en age of witnesses and accuracy of recall. Women made significantly l onger duration estimates of the target-witness encounters than did men . However, both men and women were relatively accurate in duration est imates when they used mental imagery rehearsal prior to giving duratio n judgments. The results were interpreted in terms of their forensic s ignificance.