"I saw it with my own ears": The effects of peer conversations on preschoolers' reports of nonexperienced events

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-25

  Principe, Gabrielle F ^a,b   Ceci, Stephen J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b URSINUS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood; Interviews; Legal testimony; Memory; Peers; Suggestibility

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEMORY; PEER GROUP; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SUGGESTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEMORY; PEER GROUP; SUGGESTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0242319372     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0965(02)00120-0     Document Type: Article

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