“I’d Know a False Confession if I Saw One”: A Comparative Study of College Students and Police Investigators

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  2005

• Venue

  Law and Human Behavior

• Publication date

  2005-04-01

• Fields of study

  Law, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1007/S10979-005-2416-9PMID 15912725
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