Internalized false confessions

The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology: Volume I: Memory for Events

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 175-192

  Kassin, Saul M ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315086309-7     Document Type: Chapter

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