Eliciting cues to deception and truth: What matters are the questions asked

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 110-117

  Vrij, Aldert ^a   Granhag, Pär Anders ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Deception; Detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862177960     PISSN: 22113681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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