Child protection decision-making

Child Abuse Review

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 91-102

  Kelly, Nancy ^a   Milner, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case conferences; Certainty effect; Decision making; Gains; Group polarization; Groupthink; Losses; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 17844366719     PISSN: 09529136     EISSN: 10990852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0852(199605)5:2<91::AID-CAR236>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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