Suspect personality, police interrogations, and false confessions: Maybe it is not just the situation

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 621-628

  Forrest, Krista D ^a   Wadkins, Theresa A ^a   Larson, Bridget A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

False confessions; Personality variables; Police interrogations; Suggestibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 30844443943     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

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