Using witness confidence can impair the ability to detect deception

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 433-451

  Tetterton, Veronica S ^a,b   Warren, Amye R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence; Detecting deception; Eyewitness testimony; Judgment; Juries; Nonverbal communication; Verbal communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 23444462508     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854805276406     Document Type: Review

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