Weapon focus and gender differences in eyewitness accuracy: Arousal versus salience

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2328-2341

  Shaw, Jerry I ^a   Skolnick, Paul ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0033216428     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1999.tb00113.x     Document Type: Article

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