Compliance and eyewitness testimony: Do eyewitnesses comply with misleading 'expert pressure' during investigative interviewing?

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 155-163

  Roper, Rachel ^a   Shewan, David ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTHORITY; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIABILITY; WITNESS;

EID: 0036734904     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135532502760274765     Document Type: Article

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