Eyewitness identifications are affected by stereotypes about a suspect's level of perceived stereotypicality

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 488-504

  Osborne, Danny ^a   Davies, Paul G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

crime; eyewitness identification; memory biases; stereotypicality; stereotyping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878908761     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430212454927     Document Type: Article

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