A review of the Cognitive Interview

In this critique of the Cognitive Interview (CI), discussion is organized a round four themes; (1) the effectiveness of various components of the CI, ( 2) the relationship between the CI and other interviewing methods such as t he Guided Memory Interview, the Standard Interview, and the Structured Inte rview, (3) different measures of memory performance and (4) the effect of t raining quality on interviewer performance. We comment on some of the theor etical and methodological issues to be considered ih CI research and the pr actical considerations relating to the use of the CI in the field.