Truth is at hand: How gesture adds information during investigative interviews

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 623-628

  Broaders, Sara C ^a   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eyewitness memory; False memory; Gestures; Legal processes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; SUGGESTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SUGGESTION; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; EFFECT MODIFIER, EPIDEMIOLOGIC;

EID: 77953743643     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610366082     Document Type: Article

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