Research on investigative interviewing has highlighted the role of rapport in nonconfrontational, evidence-based interviewing procedures, but questions remain about the nature and function of rapport in such interviews. Across three samples drawn from multiple previous studies involving similar methodologies, we addressed four issues: a potential role of working alliance as a rapport component, differences among different sources of rapport data, interrelationships among rapport components, and cultural/ethnic moderation. Rapport was coded from videos of introductory segments of interviews concerning a mock theft involving interviewees of different cultures/ethnicities. The rapport components were intercorrelated, converged on a single factor, and were associated with interviewer but not interviewee self-assessments of rapport. Rapport differentially predicted the informational elements interviewees produced: working alliance predicted relevant details and plausibility, but coordination predicted irrelevant details, with some culture/ethnicity moderation. We discussed these findings in relation to future theory and research on rapport in investigative interviews.

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对调查性访谈中融洽的性质和功能的初步调查

对调查性访谈的研究强调了融洽在非对抗性、基于证据的访谈程序中的作用，但关于融洽在此类访谈中的性质和功能的问题仍然存在。在从涉及类似方法的多项先前研究中抽取的三个样本中，我们解决了四个问题：工作联盟作为融洽成分的潜在作用、融洽数据不同来源之间的差异、融洽成分之间的相互关系以及文化/种族调节。融洽是从采访的介绍性片段视频中编码的，这些采访涉及涉及不同文化/种族的受访者的模拟盗窃。融洽的组成部分是相互关联的，集中在一个因素上，并且与访调员而非受访者融洽的自我评估相关。Rapport 对受访者产生的信息元素进行了差异化预测：工作联盟预测了相关细节和合理性，但协调预测了不相关的细节，具有一定的文化/种族适度。我们将这些发现与未来关于调查性访谈中融洽关系的理论和研究进行了讨论。