Children's and adults' realism in their event-recall confidence in responses to free recall and focused questions

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 529-547

  Allwood, Carl Martin ^a   Innes Ker, Åse Helene ^a   Homgren, Jessica ^a   Fredin, Gunilla ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Age; Calibration; Confidence; Event memory; Eyewitnesses; Focused questions; Free recall

Indexed keywords

EID: 56549089501     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: 14772744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10683160801961231     Document Type: Article

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