True or false: ‘I’d know a false confession if I saw one’

The Detection of Deception in Forensic Contexts

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 172-194

  Kassin, Saul ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511490071.008     Document Type: Chapter

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