Suggestibility and source monitoring errors: Blame the interview style, interviewer consistency, and the child's personality

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 489-506

  Shapiro, Lauren R ^a   Purdy, Telisa L ^a  

^a EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONFABULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRIME; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; INTERVIEW; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUGGESTION; TEMPERAMENT; VIDEORECORDING; WITNESS;

EID: 19144372923     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1093     Document Type: Article

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