How Children Report True and Fabricated Stressful and Non-Stressful Events 1

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 867-881

  Brunet, Megan K ^a   Evans, Angela D ^b   Talwar, Victoria ^c   Bala, Nicholas ^d   Lindsay, Rod C L ^d   Lee, Kang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

child witness testimony; children; deception; linguistic analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890557462     PISSN: 13218719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13218719.2012.750896     Document Type: Article

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