Inoculating against eyewitness suggestibility via interpolated verbatim vs. gist testing

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 155-170

  Pansky, Ainat ^a   Tenenboim, Einat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Eyewitness memory; False memory; Misinformation; Suggestibility; Testing effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DECEPTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SUGGESTION;

COMPREHENSION; DECEPTION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SUGGESTION; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 79952070344     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-010-0005-8     Document Type: Article

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