Brief research report: Age factors affecting the believability of repressed memories of child sexual assault

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 257-268

  Golding, Jonathan M ^a   Sanchez, Rebecca Policy ^a   Sego, Sandra A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD ABUSE; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAW SUIT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; SEXUAL ABUSE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRESSION; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 0032927883     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022329119988     Document Type: Article

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