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timeline technique  

Definition

  • "[A] self-administered recall and reporting technique designed to optimize an interviewee’s ability to recall information from a particular time period in sequence, to identify and describe the people involved and to link those people with their specific actions or other relevant information." (Hope et al., 2023, p. 435).

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Hope, L., Kontogianni, F., Rechdan, J., Tavitian-Emladjian, L., Soubra, N. A., Abu Marak Brome, D. M., Gibson, V., & Anakwah, N. (in press). Exploring cultural differences in eyewitness accounts using a self-administered reporting technique. Psychology, Crime & Law. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2023.2279330

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Hope, L., Mullis, R., & Gabbert, F. (2013). Who? What? When? Using a timeline technique to facilitate recall of a complex event. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2(1), 20–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2013.01.002

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Hope, L., Thomas, W., & Kontogianni, F. (2023). The timeline technique. In G. E. Oxburgh, T. Myklebust, M. Fallon, & M. Hartwig (Eds.), Interviewing and interrogation: A review of research and practice since World War II (pp. 433–455). Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher.

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

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