Camera perspective bias in videotaped confessions: Experimental evidence of its perceptual basis

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 197-206

  Ratcliff, Jennifer J ^a   Lassiter, G Daniel ^a   Schmidt, Heather C ^a   Snyder, Celeste J ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera perspective bias; Conceptual processing; Mental imagery; Perceptual processing; Videotaped confessions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAPE; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COERCION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRISONERS; RAPE; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 33845607650     PISSN: 1076898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1076-898X.12.4.197     Document Type: Article

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