LIE Detection by Inducing Cognitive Load: Eye Movements and Other Cues to the False Answers of "Witnesses" to Crimes

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 887-909

  Walczyk, Jeffrey J ^a   Griffith, Diana A ^a   Yates, Rachel ^a   Visconte, Shelley R ^a   Simoneaux, Byron ^a   Harris, Laura L ^a  

^a LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognition and deception; eyewitness testimony; lie detection; rehearsal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862203215     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854812437014     Document Type: Article

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