The video suggestibility scale for children: How generalizable is children's performance to other measures of suggestibility?

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 699-716

  McFarlane, Felicity ^b   Powell, Martine B ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUGGESTION; VIDEORECORDING;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUGGESTION; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0036459775     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.492     Document Type: Article

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