‘You didn't take Lucy's skirt off’: the effect of misleading information on omissions and commissions in children's memory reports

Purpose. The current study explored how misleading information affects children's omissions and commissions over time. Method. Fifty-nine younger (Mage = 4.16) and fifty-nine older (Mage = 9.44) children were instructed to remove three pieces of clothing from a puppet. Half of them were provide...

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Authors: Otgaar, Henry (Author) ; Candel, Ingrid (Author) ; Smeets, Tom (Author) ; Merckelbach, Harald 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2010
In: Legal and criminological psychology
Year: 2010, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 229-241
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