Young children are often called as witnesses to crimes they were victims of or observed. Because of their immaturity, child witnesses are sometimes more heavily scrutinized than adult witnesses before being allowed to testify in court, for example, through competency screening. This review discusses the psychology and US law relevant to decisions…

Used various suggestive techniques in repeated interviews with preschool children to elicit narratives about true and fictional events. Found that fictional narratives contained more spontaneous details, more elaborations, and more aggressive details than true narratives. Across retellings, false narratives were less consistent but contained more…

Maintains that the research teams producing the four articles in this special issue are working within the ecology of real schools to design and evaluate theory-guided research that has benefited from ample teacher input. Asserts that these articles exemplify the kind of research that schools require if the state of instruction and learning is to…