Why experts make errors

Journal of Forensic Identification

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 600-616

  Dror, Itiel E ^a   Charlton, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DECISION MAKING; ERROR; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALIZATION; MEDICAL EXPERT; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

EID: 33745433675     PISSN: 0895173X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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