Crime-related amnesia as a form of deception

The Detection of Deception in Forensic Contexts

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 195-225

  Christianson, Sven Å ^a   Merckelbach, Harald ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511490071.009     Document Type: Chapter

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