Investigating investigators: How presentation order influences participant-investigators' interpretations of eyewitness identification and alibi evidence

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 368-380

  Dahl, Leora C ^a   Brimacombe, C A Elizabeth ^b   Lindsay, D Stephen ^b  

^a OKANAGAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alibis; Eyewitness identifications; Police investigations; Recency effects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEGAL EVIDENCE; LEGAL PROCEDURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLICE; WITNESS;

ATTENTION; CRIME; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LIE DETECTION; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; POLICE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ROLE PLAYING; STUDENTS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 70350022673     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-008-9151-y     Document Type: Article

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