Symptom Validity Testing for the detection of simulated amnesia: Not robust to coaching

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 523-528

  Verschuere, Bruno ^a   Meijer, Ewout ^b   Crombez, Geert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Coaching; Symptom Validity Test; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 56549128193     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: 14772744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10683160801955183     Document Type: Article

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