When believing is seeing: The effect of scripts on eyewitness memory

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 685-694

  Greenberg, Martin S ^a   Westcott, David R ^a   Bailey, Scott E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b M/A/R/C Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COGNITION; COURT; CRIME; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; RECOGNITION; WITNESS;

ADULT; CRIME; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032429658     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025758807624     Document Type: Article

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