The Role of Account Length in Detecting Deception in Written and Orally Produced Autobiographical Accounts using Reality Monitoring

Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 185-198

  Elntib, Stamatis ^a   Wagstaff, Graham F ^a   Wheatcroft, Jacqueline M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Account length; Oral account; Reality monitoring; Verbal lie detection; Written statement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930506268     PISSN: 15444759     EISSN: 15444767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jip.1420     Document Type: Article

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