The Field of Eyewitness Memory Should Abandon Probative Value and Embrace Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 275-278

  Wixted, John T ^a   Mickes, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

eyewitness memory; false identification; lineup identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861773590     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745691612442906     Document Type: Article

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