Consistency across repeated eyewitness interviews: Contrasting police detectives' beliefs with actual eyewitness performance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Krix, Alana C ^a   Sauerland, Melanie ^a   Lorei, Clemens ^b   Rispens, Imke ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RHEINMAIN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c Netherlands Police Academy   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INTERVIEW; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEMORY; POLICE; RECALL; THEFT; TRAINING; VALIDITY; WITNESS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; POLICE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; THEFT;

EID: 84923165712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118641     Document Type: Article

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