Suspicious minds: Criminals' ability to detect deception

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 83-95

  Hartwig, Maria ^a   Granhag, Pär Anders ^a   Strömwall, Leif A ^a   Andersson, Lars O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Deception Detection; Feedback Hypothesis; Truth Lie Bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 0842285895     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1068316031000095485     Document Type: Review

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