Repeated partial eyewitness questioning causes confidence inflation but not retrieval-induced forgetting

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 90-97

  Odinot, Geralda ^a   Wolters, Gezinus ^b   Lavender, Tristan ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF CRIME AND LAW ENFORCEMENT   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 60149096956     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1443     Document Type: Article

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