When emotions get the better of us: The effect of contextual top-down processing on matching fingerprints

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 799-809

  Dror, Itiel E ^a   Péron, Ailsa E ^a   Hind, Sara Lynn ^a   Charlton, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Fingerprint Bureau   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 26044444281     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1130     Document Type: Article

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