Witnesses appearing live versus on video: Effects on observers' perception, veracity assessments and memory

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 913-933

  Landström, Sara ^a   Granhag, Pär Anders ^a   Hartwig, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING; WITNESS;

EID: 28644445659     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1131     Document Type: Article

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