Mental and physical countermeasures reduce the accuracy of the concealed knowledge test

Psychophysiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 84-92

  Honts, Charles R ^a,c   Devitt, Mary K ^a   Winbush, Marcus ^a   Kircher, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concealed knowledge test; Countermeasures; Guilty knowledge test; Lie detection; Statistical decision making

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CRIME; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GUILT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; TOE;

EID: 0030043858     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1996.tb02111.x     Document Type: Article

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