Effects of personality, interrogation techniques and plausibility in an experimental false confession paradigm

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-88

  Klaver, Jessica R ^a   Lee, Zina ^a,b   Rose, V Gordon ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; CRIMINAL LAW; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; LOCUS OF CONTROL; MACHIAVELLIANISM; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL HEALTH; OFFENDER; PERSONALITY; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPONSE VARIABLE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 39749196131     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135532507X193051     Document Type: Article

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