Episode 345 - Forensic Interviewing w. Dr. Ray Joslyn
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
While "just the facts" might be one way to ask questions, it's certainly not the ONLY way. And, if you're not careful, your interviewing style could get you all the wrong answers. This week we're joined by Dr. Ray Joslyn to discuss ALL the behavior analytic research there is on forensic interviewing. Is it the way we ask the questions or our responses to answers that influence accuracy the most? Are children or adults the most impacted by misleading statements? And did Scooby Doo really eat that ice cream cone? Are you sure? Hmm...ok, if you say so.
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Articles discussed this episode:
Doepke, K.J., Henderson, A.L., & Critchfield, T.S (2003). Social antecedents of children's eyewitness testimony: A single-subject experimental analysis. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 36, 459-463. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2003.36-459
Sparling, J., Wilder, D.A., Kondash, J., Boyle, M., & Compton, M. (2011). Effects of interviewer behavior on accuracy of children's responses. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 44, 587-592. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2011.44-587
Najafichaghabouri, M., Joslyn, P.R., & Preston, E. (2024). Idiosyncratic effects of interviewer behavior on the accuracy of children's responses. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 57, 463-472. doi: 10.1002/jaba.1065
Moon, S.L. Joslyn, P.R. (in press). Effects of adversarial questioning on response accuracy in analog forensic interviews.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz. |
| 0:22.0 | And I think there's someone with me. |
| 0:24.6 | Is someone there with me? |
| 0:27.6 | I'm here. |
| 0:29.5 | Are you sure you're here? |
| 0:31.1 | Really? |
| 0:31.4 | I'm not sure, actually. |
| 0:33.5 | Maybe I'm not actually here. |
| 0:35.5 | What's your name? |
| 0:36.3 | My name is Jackie McDonald. Hmm. Someone told me that's not your name. I mean, I'll go by anything you want. All right, good. I like that answer. And my other fabulous co-host. I'm not at all impressionable. My name's Dangan and Perry Cruz. That's exactly your name. Good job. Thanks for sharing. |
| 0:56.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:57.3 | I heard this co-host is really great, and everyone should listen. |
| 1:01.5 | How? |
| 1:02.1 | Anyway, folks, I'm sorry. I'm trying something out. We've been a podcast about behavior analysis and behavior analytic research, where every week we pick a topic and discuss it at length. But, you know, I'm kind of trying out some new trick. We've done this for 10 years. I need some new, I need some new interview questions. You know, I was watching some old TV shows, and I was trying to get like new ideas of how to ask questions. So I'm trying some out. I don't know if they're any good. I feel like maybe I'm not getting good answers from them |
| 1:27.9 | sometimes, but I wasn't sure why. So fortunately, we have a guest on today who's going to help us |
| 1:34.5 | learn a little bit more about forensic interviewing, and that is special guest, Dr. Ray Jocelyn, |
| 1:40.5 | Ray, thank you so much for bringing this topic to our attention to something that we, |
| 1:44.6 | there's research on and behavior analysis, and then talking about it with us. |
| 1:48.6 | Yeah, thanks for having me on. |
| 1:50.4 | So, Ray, I'd love to hear a little bit more about your background, as well as how you became |
| 1:55.2 | interested in studying this topic. |
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