Eyewitness Identification Reforms: Are Suggestiveness-Induced Hits and Guesses True Hits?

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 264-271

  Wells, Gary L ^a   Steblay, Nancy K ^b   Dysart, Jennifer E ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUGSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^c JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

eyewitness identification; false identification; suspect lineups

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861767935     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745691612443368     Document Type: Article

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