The confidence-accuracy and decision latency-accuracy relationships in children's eyewitness identification

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 119-128

  Brewer, Neil ^a   Day, Katherine ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIVACY; VIDEORECORDING; WITNESS;

EID: 22444432858     PISSN: 13218719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/pplt.2005.12.1.119     Document Type: Article

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