Linguistic and socioemotional influences on the accuracy of children's reports

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 335-358

  Carter, Cathleen A ^a   Bottoms, Bette L ^a   Levine, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COURT; INTERVIEW; LEGAL ASPECT; WITNESS;

EID: 0030054508     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01499027     Document Type: Article

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