Domestic violence typically recurs over time, involving the same victim and perpetrator. When complainants make an allegation about abuse, they are required to particularise the offence and recall details unique to specific occurrences. This experiment investigated adults' ability to particularise an occurrence after experiencing a single or repeated event. Participants watched one or multiple videos of domestic violence and were interviewed about the last or only video they had observed. For repeated‐event participants, some details were present in all videos (fixed), whereas others differed predictably (variable). Repeated‐event participants recalled a significantly lower proportion of correct details about the target video relative to single event participants, although they reported similar proportions of correct experienced details. Repeated‐event participants also reported a significantly higher proportion of correct fixed, relative to correct variable details about the target video. These findings indicate that adults are likely to have difficulty fulfilling the particularisation requirement.

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成人指出重复事件发生的能力

家庭暴力通常会随着时间的流逝而再次发生，涉及相同的受害者和作案者。当投诉人指控虐待时，他们必须具体说明罪行并召回特定事件所特有的细节。该实验研究了成年人在经历单个或重复事件后确定事件发生的能力。参与者观看了一个或多个家庭暴力视频，并就他们所观看的最后一个视频进行了采访。对于重复活动的参与者，所有视频中都有一些详细信息（固定），而其他一些则有可预测的差异（可变）。重复事件参与者回忆起与单个事件参与者相比，有关目标视频的正确细节的比例要低得多，尽管他们报告的正确经历细节的比例相似。重复事件的参与者还报告，相对于有关目标视频的正确变量详细信息，正确固定的比例要高得多。这些发现表明，成年人可能很难满足特殊化要求。