Lay people's and police officers' attitudes towards the usefulness of perpetrator voice identification

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 103-115

  Philippon, Axelle C ^a   Cherryman, Julie ^a   Bull, Ray ^b   Vrij, Aldert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OFFENDER; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE; WITNESS;

EID: 33846369573     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1281     Document Type: Article

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