Abstract Statements made by children in a range of legal settings can irrevocably impact their family structure, relationships, and living environment. Because these statements can fundamentally alter children’s futures, efforts have been made to identify methods to enhance children’s reports by increasing comprehensiveness, completeness, and accuracy. Interviewer support has broadly been considered a method of interest, but variations in what constitutes “support” have highlighted the need for greater specificity in documenting how different facets of supportive behaviors relate to children’s reporting tendencies. In this review, we describe work focused on the effects of interviewer support, on children’s memory completeness and accuracy. We then describe to a subset of interviewer behaviors that encourage elaboration in dyadic interactions: back-channeling and vocatives. We present preliminary evidence suggesting that these utterances, referred to as implicit encouragement, can increase the amount of detail provided without compromising accuracy. Implications for custody evaluations are discussed.

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使用隐性鼓励来提高儿童的叙事生产力：初步证据和法律影响

摘要 儿童在一系列法律环境中所作的陈述会对他们的家庭结构、关系和生活环境产生不可逆转的影响。由于这些陈述可以从根本上改变儿童的未来，因此已经努力确定通过提高全面性、完整性和准确性来改进儿童报告的方法。采访者的支持被广泛认为是一种感兴趣的方法，但构成“支持”的不同之处突出了在记录支持行为的不同方面与儿童报告倾向之间的关系时需要更加具体的需要。在这篇综述中，我们描述了侧重于采访者支持对儿童记忆完整性和准确性的影响的工作。然后，我们向一部分面试官描述了鼓励在二元交互中详细说明的行为：反向引导和呼唤。我们提供的初步证据表明，这些被称为隐性鼓励的话语可以在不影响准确性的情况下增加所提供的细节量。讨论了监护权评估的影响。