Does the presentation of multiple facial composites improve suspect identification?

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 213-226

  Brace, Nicola ^a   Pike, Graham ^a   Kemp, Richard ^b   Turner, Jim ^a   Bennett, Peter ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Aspley Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FACE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; OFFENDER; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WITNESS;

EID: 33645221325     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1181     Document Type: Article

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