Effects of the cognitive interview on the recall of familiar and unfamiliar events

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Thirty experienced blood donors and 30 nondonors were shown a videotape of a blood-donation event. They were later questioned about the event in either a cognitive interview or a structured interview. Results show that interviewees in the cognitive-interview condition recalled significantly more correct and incorrect information as compared with interviewees in the structured interview, whereas no overall differences were found between the familiarity conditions. Analyses with regard to script to script-inconsistent and omitted script-consistent and relevant details revealed that blood donors produced significantly more intrusion errors as compared with nondonors. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Recollection (Psychology), Blood donors, Blood donation, Interviewing, Recall (Memory)

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Importance of factors in the review of grant proposals

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How important are specific factors in the evaluation of grant proposals? Extremely important, a study has found. The factors with the greatest impact involve the proposal's scientific relevance, clarity, soundness of technique and the background of the principal investigators. Programmatic and size factors were less influential.

Analysis, Finance, Research grants, Research funding, Peer review of research grant proposals, Research and development contracts

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