The psychology of telling murder stories: Do we think in scripts, exemplars, or prototypes?

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 119-139

  Kirschner, Stuart M ^a   Galperin, Gary J ^a  

^a JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; LEGAL ASPECT; LITERATURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFILE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MEMORY; MISSOURI; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 0036096032     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.476     Document Type: Article

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