The devil is not only in the details: gist and detail elaboration in intoxicated witnesses’ reports of interpersonal violence

Figures & data

Figure 1. An overview with examples of gist categories and their respective details.

Table 1. Mean amount of reported gist categories (1) and reported details per gist category (2) as a function of degree of intoxication and different emotional contexts.

		Interview: 10 min after the event		Interview: one week delay
Neutral	Sober	(1) 9.22 (2.57) (2) 3.34 (1.36)	Interview condition total for neutral context: (1) 8.76 (2.53) (2) 3.12 (1.16)	(1) 8.71 (2.07) (2) 2.37 (0.69)	Interview condition total for neutral context: (1) 7.81 (2.32) (2) 2.33 (0.79)
	Moderate	(1) 8.73 (2.10) (2) 2.86 (1.04)		(1) 7.88 (1.92) (2) 2.56 (0.93)
	Severe	(1) 8.17 (2.62) (2) 2.95 (0.88)		(1) 6.06 (2.18) (2) 2.06 (0.78)
Verbally aggressive	Sober	(1) 10.66 (2.06) (2) 3.07 (0.95)	Interview condition total for verbally aggressive context: (1) 9.58 (2.79) (2) 2.91 (0.93)	(1) 8.06 (2.63) (2) 2.47 (0.72)	Interview condition total for verbally aggressive context: (1) 7.16 (2.85) (2) 2.23 (0.79)
	Moderate	(1) 10.18 (2.48) (2) 2.84 (1.08)		(1) 7.69 (1.99) (2) 2.16 (0.76)
	Severe	(1) 7.88 (3.01) (2) 2.73 (0.84)		(1) 5.00 (2.89) (2) 1.84 (0.99)
Physically aggressive	Sober	(1) 8.91 (2.23) (2) 4.75 (1.78)	Interview condition total for physically aggressive context: (1) 7.87 (2.49) (2) 4.43 (1.51)	(1) 7.53 (2.72) (2) 3.59 (1.06)	Interview condition total for physically aggressive context: (1) 6.29 (2.79) (2) 3.40 (1.51)
	Moderate	(1) 7.45 (2.62) (2) 4.43 (1.01)		(1) 5.88 (2.16) (2) 3.03 (0.86)
	Severe	(1) 6.67 (2.24) (2) 4.01 (1.21)		(1) 4.33 (2.20) (2) 3.39 (2.44)

Figure 2. Amount of gist categories reported from the neutral, verbally aggressive and physically aggressive context by beverage condition and interview condition.

Figure 3. Detailed elaboration of gist categories reported from the neutral, verbally aggressive and physically aggressive context by beverage condition and interview condition.