The accuracy and suggestibility of children's memory for neutral and criminal eyewitness events

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 79-92

  Ochsner, Joyce E ^a   Zaragoza, Maria S ^a   Mitchcll, Karen J ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SUGGESTION; THEFT; WITNESS;

EID: 0033056199     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135532599167806     Document Type: Article

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