Language of lies in prison: Linguistic classification of prisoners' truthful and deceptive natural language

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 313-329

  Bond, Gary D ^a   Lee, Adrienne Y ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONALITY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISONER; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TIME PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES; VIDEORECORDING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 17144409052     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1087     Document Type: Article

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