"How did you feel?": Increasing child sexual abuse witnesses' production of evaluative information

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 448-457

  Lyon, Thomas D ^a   Scurich, Nicholas ^a   Choi, Karen ^a   Handmaker, Sally ^a   Blank, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

child sexual abuse; children; emotion; question type

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; EMOTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VICTIM;

ADOLESCENT; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRIME VICTIMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84874202549     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0093986     Document Type: Article

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