Children's false memories: Different false memory paradigms reveal different results

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 513-528

  Otgaar, Henry ^a   Candel, Ingrid ^a  

^a Clin Exp Psychol   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; DRM; False memories; Suggestibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960696516     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: 14772744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10683160903373392     Document Type: Article

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