Charlatanry in forensic speech science: A problem to be taken seriously

International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 169-193

  Eriksson, Anders ^a   Lacerda, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Airport security; Charlatanry; Layered voice analysis; Lie detector; Microtremor; Psychological stress evaluator; Voice stress analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749157875     PISSN: 17488885     EISSN: 17488893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/ijsll.2007.14.2.169     Document Type: Article

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