Children's eyewitness identification performance: Effects of a Not Sure response option and accuracy motivation

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 261-277

  Brewer, Neil ^a   Keast, Amber ^a   Sauer, James D ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CRIME; DECISION MAKING; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDENTIFICATION KEY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WITNESS;

EID: 77956566799     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135532509X474822     Document Type: Article

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