Processing resources and eyewitness suggestibility

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 305-320

  Zaragoza, Maria S ^a   Lane, Sean M ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SUGGESTION; WITNESS;

EID: 0031670943     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8333.1998.tb00368.x     Document Type: Article

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