The confidence-accuracy relation in eyewitness identification: Effects of verbal versus numeric confidence scales

Applied Psychology Research Trends

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 103-118

  Weber, Nathan ^a   Brewer, Neil ^a   Margitich, Scott ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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