Credible but inaccurate: Can Criterion-Based Content Analysis (CBCA) distinguish true and false memories?

Child Sexual Abuse: Issues and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 21-42

  Kulkofsky, Sarah ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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