Look into my eyes': Can an instruction to maintain eye contact facilitate lie detection?

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 327-348

  Vrij, Aldert ^a   Mann, Samantha ^a   Leal, Sharon ^b   Fisher, Ronald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Believability; Believed cues; Credibility; Deception; Deception detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951915064     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: 14772744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10683160902740633     Document Type: Article

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