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Establishing the most effective way to deliver the sketch procedure to enhance interviewee free recall |
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| Authors: | Oliver Genschow Thomas Noll Michaela Wänke Robert Gersbach |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgiumoliver.genschow@ugent.be;3. Swiss Prison Staff Training Center, Fribourg, Switzerland;4. Department of Consumer and Economic Psychology, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany;5. Justizvollzugsanstalt P?schwies, Regensdorf, Switzerland |
| Abstract: | Many prisons across Western countries recently began to paint detention cells in Baker-Miller pink to calm down aggressive inmates. This recent development is based on early findings of more than 30 years ago suggesting that Baker-Miller pink reduces physical strength and thus aggressive behavior. In the present study we question the applied methods of the original studies and run a highly standardized and controlled experiment to test the influence of Baker-Miller pink on aggressive behavior. The results do not replicate the original findings and thus challenge the recent adoption in many prisons. Implications and limitations of the experiment are discussed. |
| Keywords: | color aggression Baker-Miller pink prison calming |