Lies, damned lies, and the path from police interrogation to wrongful conviction

The Scientist and the Humanist: A Festschrift in Honor of Elliot Aronson

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 211-247

  Davis, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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