Enhancing performance: Factors affecting the informativeness of young witnesses

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

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 429-452

  Lamb, Michael E ^a   Orbach, Yael ^b   Warren, Amye R ^c   Esplin, Phillip W ^d   Hershkowitz, Irit ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

^d Private Practice   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315086309-18     Document Type: Chapter

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