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leading: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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leading1 CONSTRUCTLeading questionLOFTUS · SUGGESTION

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Law & memory

A question that plants its own answer

In the law of evidence and in cognitive psychology, a leading question is one phrased so that it suggests the answer the questioner wants, and the construct matters because such prompting can reshape what a witness reports and even what they remember. Loftus and Palmer's 1974 Reconstruction of automobile destruction showed that changing a single verb in a question (“smashed” versus “hit”) shifted people's speed estimates and later false memories of broken glass, which is why direct examination usually bars leading questions. Here the word is pronounced to rhyme with “feeding,” and the referent is the steering force a question exerts on an answer, nothing to do with the space between lines of type or a manager directing a team.[1]

Unit
The degree to which a question's wording biases the response elicited
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Studied by manipulating question wording and comparing the responses, estimates, or false recollections produced

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References

  1. Loftus, E. F., & Palmer, J. C. (1974). Reconstruction of automobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 13(5), 585–589. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5371(74)80011-3

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