Current research and potential applications of the concealed information test: An overview

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Ben Shakhar, Gershon ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Concealed information test; Memory detection; Psychophysiological detection of deception; The guilty knowledge test; The searching CIT

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EID: 84867058525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00342     Document Type: Review

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