Identifying the Bad Guy in a Lineup Using Confidence Judgments Under Deadline Pressure

Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1208-1214

  Brewer, Neil ^a   Weber, Nathan ^a   Wootton, David ^a   Lindsay, D Stephen ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

eyewitness memory; memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867652239     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612441217     Document Type: Article

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