"He's guilty!": Investigator bias in judgments of truth and deception

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 469-480

  Meissner, Christian A ^a,b   Kassin, Saul M ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deception; Interrogation; Response bias

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GUILT; HUMAN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; POLICE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECUMBENCY; UNITED STATES; VIDEORECORDING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DECEPTION; FLORIDA; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; ONTARIO; POLICE; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0036781294     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020278620751     Document Type: Conference Paper

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