How should witnesses regulate the accuracy of their identification decisions: One step forward, two steps back?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1810-1818

  Perfect, Timothy J ^a   Weber, Nathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Eyewitness memory; Free report; Identification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CRIME; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECOGNITION;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CRIME; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874670103     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028461     Document Type: Article

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