Recent findings suggest that priming may be useful for facilitating disclosure in investigative interviews; however, the effects of priming on behavioral outcomes have been mixed. The current studies attempted to replicate the increase in information disclosure when the concept of “openness” is primed. We assessed the separate and combined influence of context reinstatement instructions and activation of the concept of openness (via lexical primes in Experiment 1, via contextual and embodiment primes in Experiment 2) on information disclosure. In doing so, we introduced a novel paradigm to investigate factors contributing to the elicitation of sensitive personal information that participants provided in written (Experiment 1) or verbal (Experiment 2) form. Participants (Experiment 1: N = 173; Experiment 2: N = 194) completed a checklist of illegal behaviors and misdeeds, then engaged in an unrelated task that was used to administer the priming manipulation (either the concept of “open” or “closed,” or a neutral prime). Participants then described a life event related to the most serious illegal behavior to which they had admitted, following either a direct request for information or a context reinstatement instruction. Across both experiments, context reinstatement led to robust increases in information disclosure. Although we failed to replicate prior effects of priming on disclosure, our observed effect sizes fell within the confidence intervals of previous studies. A meta-analytic assessment of priming across the two studies suggested a small but significant increase in information elicitation, suggesting that investigators are best served using evidence-based interviewing tactics during investigative interviews.

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概念启动和上下文恢复：直接和间接采访技术的测试。

最近的发现表明，启动调查可能有助于促进调查性访谈中的披露。但是，启动对行为结果的影响喜忧参半。当前的研究试图在“开放性”概念受到重视时复制信息披露的增加。我们评估了上下文恢复指令和开放性概念的激活（通过实验1中的词汇素数，通过实验2中的上下文素数和实施例素数）对信息披露的单独和综合影响。在此过程中，我们引入了一种新颖的范式，以调查有助于激发参与者以书面（实验1）或口头（实验2）形式提供的敏感个人信息的因素。参与者（实验1：N = 173；实验2：N = 194）完成了非法行为和不当行为的清单，然后从事一项无关的任务，该任务用于执行启动操作（“打开”或“关闭”或中性启动）。然后，参与者根据直接请求信息或上下文恢复指示，描述了与他们已承认的最严重非法行为有关的生活事件。在两个实验中，恢复上下文都会导致信息披露大量增加。尽管我们未能复制启动对披露的先前影响，但我们观察到的影响大小仍在先前研究的置信区间内。对这两项研究的启动进行了荟萃分析评估，结果表明，信息引发量有小幅但显着的增加，