showing that young children are more suggestible than adults (re viewed by Ceci & Br?ck, 1993), these studies were limited to ex aminations of the influence of single misleading suggestions on children's recall of neutral, and of ten uninteresting, events. In other words, the conditions of the stud ies were not similar to the condi tions that brought children to court. This empirical vacuum forced a new conceptualization of issues related to children's suggest ibility, which, in turn, resulted in an outpouring of new research in the area. In general, two features of the newer research make it more relevant to forensic issues. First, the studies are designed to exam ine children's suggestibility about events that are personally salient, that involve bodily touching, and that involve insinuations of sexual
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