"What else could he have done?" Creating false answers in child witnesses by inviting speculation

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 525-532

  Schreiber, Nadja ^a,b   Wentura, Dirk ^a,c   Bilsky, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CRIMINAL LAW; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEMORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TIME;

CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRIMINAL LAW; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY; TIME FACTORS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 85047683574     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.86.3.525     Document Type: Article

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