Testing promotes eyewitness accuracy with a warning: Implications for retrieval enhanced suggestibility

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 149-157

  Thomas, Ayanna K ^a   Bulevich, John B ^b   Chan, Jason C K ^c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Eyewitness memory; Misinformation effect; Recall; Recognition; Retrieval fluency; Retrieval enhanced suggestibility; Testing effect; Warning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954214541     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.04.004     Document Type: Article

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