Abstract
Children's credibility as witnesses in court cases has become an important issue in recent years. When testifying, younger children are considered to be more susceptible to suggestion than are older children. The present study examined the possibility that knowledge of an interviewer's mental states (intention and false belief, in this study) would influence the accuracy of young children's reporting of a recently witnessed event. Five-year-old children were shown a short video clip, after which they were asked to free recall as well as respond to a list of specific questions. Results showed that children who were given knowledge of an interviewer's intention resisted suggestive questioning, whereas children without mental-states knowledge were misled to report inaccurate information.
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