Eyewitness testimony after three months: A field study on memory for an incident in everyday life1
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Eyewitness testimony.
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عنوان ژورنال: Japanese Psychological Research
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0021-5368
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5884.1996.tb00004.x