Please join Jacqueline Evans and Deborah Goldfarb, Florida International University, on March 4 at 4:00 p.m. for a one-hour Zoom presentation that will describe the findings of research that has successfully tested the application of psychology to contact tracing interviews.
Contact tracing is fundamentally a memory task: Remembering all of one's close contacts over a period of several days, regardless of salience, so that they can be informed of their exposure and self-quarantine. Unfortunately, forgetting is common, and every omitted contact increases the potential spread of disease. The research literature on cognition and investigative interviewing provides a wealth of information regarding how to help people remember.
This presentation will review relevant principles of psychology as they apply to contact tracing. The utility of self-led contact tracing interviews will also be discussed.
For a Zoom invitation, please send an email to Krys Kaniasty at kaniasty@iup.edu.
About the Speakers
Jacqueline Evans conducts research on investigative interviewing in its many forms, to include interviewing cooperative witnesses, interrogating uncooperative suspects, and gathering intelligence from sources.
Deborah Goldfarb studies a number of topics at the intersection of law and developmental psychology, including legal attitudes, developmental intuitive jurisprudence, and memory in victims and eyewitnesses.