Legal interviewers use children's affect and eye contact cues to assess credibility of their testimony

Early Child Development and Care

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 397-404

  Field, Tiffany ^a,b   Malphurs, Julie E ^a   Yando, Regina ^c   Bendell, Debra ^b   Carraway, Kirsten ^a   Cohen, Raquel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Child testimony; Children; Court; Eye contact cues

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950954631     PISSN: 03004430     EISSN: 14768275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03004430801996355     Document Type: Article

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