Police Officers’ Lie Detection Accuracy: Interrogating Freely Versus Observing Video

Police Quarterly

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 429-456

  Hartwig, Maria ^a   Granhag, Pär Anders ^a   Strömwall, Leif A ^a   Vrij, Aldert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

deception detection; interrogation techniques; police officers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993724902     PISSN: 10986111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1098611104264748     Document Type: Article

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