Differentiating between children's true and false memories using reality monitoring criteria

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 555-566

  Otgaar, Henry ^a   Candel, Ingrid ^a   Memon, Amina ^b   Almerigogna, Jehanne ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; False memories; Reality monitoring framework

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955185704     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: 14772744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10683160902926166     Document Type: Article

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