Kyriakidou, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-9329-3425 and Blades, M. (2025) Circadian rhythms behind interviewers' approaches: the time‐of‐day effect in police interviews with children. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 22 (2). e70004. ISSN 1544-4759
Abstract
Police interviews with children are often the only source of evidence about an abuse. Circadian rhythms are known to affect cognitive processes, but the effect they may have on the quality of police interviews is unknown. Data comprised 102 transcriptions of police interviews with children. Transcripts were rated for effective interviewing approaches, that is approaches following guidelines. Time of day was examined as a predictor of interviewers effectiveness related with the type of approaches interviewers used, for example, open-ended questions. Interviewer effectiveness declined as the day progressed, but only for the less skilled interviewers. Highly skilled interviewers were unaffected by the time-of-day. The identification of time-of-day as a possible risk factor which reduces the quality of interviews is of great importance.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | children; circadian rhythms; Cyprus; investigative interviews; police; time-of-day |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jun 2025 14:51 |
Last Modified: | 03 Jun 2025 14:51 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/jip.70004 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:227335 |