The response alternatives of suggestible and non-suggestible adolescent offenders

The study investigated the response alternatives of suggestible and non-suggestible adolescents as assessed by the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale. A theoretical model of interrogative suggestibility (Gudjonsson & Clark, 1986) hypothesized that highly suggestible individuals were particularly susceptible to changing their responses to false-alternative questions following negative feedback during interrogation. The results of the present study did not support this hypothesis in a sample of forensic adolescents.