Handbook of the Psychology of Interviewing - Hardcover

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Amina Memon is a lecture in Social Psychology at the University of Southampton. She has published widely on topics such as police interviewing, face recognition, eyewitness identification, child witness memory and jury decision making. Amina recently completed her first book: Psychology and Law: Truthfulness, Accuracy and Creditability (with Ray Bull & Aldert Vrij). Amina has held several research grants and her current project funded by the National Science Foundation is an investigation of eyewitness testimony in older adults. This text was completed while she was a visiting research scientist in the School of Human Development at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Ray Bull is Professor of Criminological and Legal Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. He has published extensively on investigative interviewing, particularly of children. He has advised a large number of organisations in various countries, especially police forces, on how best to conduct interviews both with ordinary people and those with special needs. He, with collaborators, has received funding for research on interviewing from the Home Office and the Economic and Social Research Council, with the latter supporting doctoral students to be supervised by Ray and colleagues. Together with the lawyer David Carson he is co-editor of Wiley's Handbook of Psychology in Legal Contexts and of the Kluwer journal Expert Evidence. Ray has been recognised by various courts as and Expert Witness

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Handbook of the Psychology of Interviewing Edited by Amina Memon, University of Southampton, UK and Ray Bull, University of Portsmouth, UK Although their aims may be diverse, most professionals need to collect information using interviews, whether it be for exploring an individual?s current attitudes or emotions, attempting to retrieve information from an individual?s memory, collecting data, or testing theories. The Handbook of the Psychology of Interviewing draws together leading researchers and professionals from a wide range of fields all sharing a common methodology: the interview. Together they provide a thorough exploration of the methodology, theory and practice of interviewing and offer extensive examples of each technique applied. Divided into five parts, the handbook commences with an examination of the role of diagnostic and assessment interviews in the clinical context. Part two focuses on the health and social sciences field and demonstrates how different types of interviews can be used to tackle specific theoretical questions and to gather detailed information about a particular topic. Part three concentrates on interview methodology in the investigation of sensitive issues such as sexual conduct and ethical dilemmas. Parts four and five examine the role of interviewing in organisational and forensic contexts. This authoritative and accessible handbook will benefit professionals in a wide range of disciplines including clinical, social, and forensic psychology, social work, medicine, counselling, statistics, and law.