What do you expect?: The influence of people's prior knowledge of crime categories on fact-finding

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 517-532

  Smith, Vicki L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DECISION MAKING; EXPECTANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 0029848380     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01499039     Document Type: Article

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