Nadja Schreiber

Nadja Schreiber received her Ph.D. from the Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, joining the FIU faculty in 2005. Her research interests are (child) witness interviewing and police training. Specifically, she is interested in how investigative interviewing techniques influence witnesses’ statements and how empirical findings can best be transferred into “real-world” practices.

Representative Publications

   Fisher, R. P. & Schreiber, N. (in press). Forensic psychiatry and forensic psychology: Forensic interviewing. In J. Payne-James, R. Byard, T. Corey, & C. Henderson (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine. Oxford: Elsevier Science.

   Schreiber, N. & Parker, J.F. (2004). Inviting child witnesses to speculate: Effects of age and interaction on children’s recall. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 89, 31-52.

   Schreiber, N., Wentura, D. & Bilsky, W. (2001). What else could he have done? – Creating false answers in child witnesses by "inviting speculation." Journal of Applied Psychology, 86, 525-532.

   Schreiber, N. (2000). Interviewing techniques in sexual abuse cases – a comparison of a day-care abuse case with normal abuse cases. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 59, 196-206.

Last Updated August, 2005