What makes recovered-memory testimony compelling to jurors?

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 317-338

  Coleman, Barbara L ^a   Stevens, Michael J ^b   Reeder, Glenn D ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; CRIMINAL LAW; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECUMBENCY; SEXUAL CRIME; SUGGESTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CRIMINAL LAW; DECEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRESSION; SEX OFFENSES; SUGGESTION;

EID: 0035433444     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010607401492     Document Type: Article

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