Remembering and identifying menacing perpetrators: Exposure to violence and the weapon focus effect

The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology: Volume II: Memory for People

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 339-360

  Pickel, Kerri L ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85003369736     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203936368-21     Document Type: Chapter

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