The reliability of lie detection performance

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 96-109

  Leach, Amy May ^a   Lindsay, R C L ^b   Koehler, Rachel ^b   Beaudry, Jennifer L ^b   Bala, Nicholas C ^b   Lee, Kang ^c   Talwar, Victoria ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deception; Individual differences; Lie detection; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CUES; DECEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIE DETECTION; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 58849158814     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-008-9137-9     Document Type: Article

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