'You didn't take Lucy's skirt off': The effect of misleading information on omissions and commissions in children's memory reports

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 229-241

  Otgaar, Henry ^a   Candel, Ingrid ^a   Smeets, Tom ^a   Merckelbach, Harald ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLOTHING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERVIEW; LEGAL EVIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 77956581817     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135532509X471951     Document Type: Article

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