The Effect of Pre-Interview Training and Warnings on Children's Eyewitness Testimonies

The present study examined two important issues regarding children's eyewitness testimonies -compliance which is the tendency to agree with misleading questions and the misinformation effect whereby participants incorporate misleading postevent information into their memory recall of the origin...

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Autor principal: Jost, Julie A. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
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Publicado: 1998
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