{"apiVersion":"1","version":"sha256:faade27e0b75b2aca6311142ff65347b4dacc153e8d28cbdf0e8a237319331f9","data":{"id":"S7684","title":"The Forensic Use of Hypnosis","authors":["Martin T. Orne","David F. Dinges","Emily Carota Orne"],"publishedDate":"1984-12","format":"Report","url":"https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/96336NCJRS.pdf","summary":"Orne, Dinges and Orne’s December 1984 NIJ brief separates confidence and detail from accurate memory, describes risks of suggestion and confabulation, and allows a qualified role for investigative leads while opposing court testimony based on hypnosis. Its safeguards document sessions without guaranteeing accurate recollection. This is a historical review, not a new UFO study or current legal/clinical guidance. Public grant support and agency hosting do not establish a secret programme or agency endorsement of every author conclusion.","subjects":["Witness memory","Research methods","Government research"],"people":[],"review":{"label":"Complete supplied NIJ brief text and all six scan layouts","scope":"Read all 34,520 supplied extracted characters and viewed all six native scan leaves, including the NCJRS quality/rights wrapper, five numbered report pages, selected bibliography and mailing panel, and final END frame. The scan contains paired-page frames, so six PDF leaves are not six numbered text pages. Exact native title/date/name and reading-order checks qualified the OCR. Cited studies, legal decisions, original review chapters, longer NIJ report and recordings remain unreviewed.","gaps":["The complete supplied six-leaf scan text and all six layouts were reviewed, with OCR and wrapper limits retained. The 16 selected references, legal case files, Crime and Justice chapter, longer NIJ report, underlying datasets and recordings were not independently read or replicated.","Publication is December 1984 in the native masthead; the official catalogue supplies the year and a January 1 date field, which is not treated as a verified exact day. It lists five pages; the bibliography counts six, while the actual PDF has six scan leaves with paired pages, wrapper and END frame. These counts describe different units.","The authors’ scientific review and admission-of-testimony positions are historical and explicitly acknowledge differing jurisdictions. They do not supply current legal or clinical advice, show that every hypnotic recollection is false, or adjudicate any UFO witness. No new interview, hypnosis session or patient record was collected.","The Director’s note permits potential investigative leads but distinguishes them from evidentiary accuracy and flags disagreement. Session safeguards are described as records for evaluation, without guaranteeing true memories. No safeguards or clinical intervention were executed as part of this research.","NIJ/NIMH and private-institute support are disclosed public research provenance, not classified access. The source disclaims official agency endorsement. The short brief depends on prior reviews and a longer report; those publications and overlapping references are not additional independent studies."]},"familyId":"NIJ-RESEARCH-IN-BRIEF-NCJ96336-ORNE-DINGES-ORNE-198412","citationUrl":"https://bioparity.io/sources/S7684","citation":"Martin T. Orne, David F. Dinges, Emily Carota Orne. The Forensic Use of Hypnosis. December 1984. BioParity S7684. https://bioparity.io/sources/S7684"}}