Adults Easily Fooled By Children's False Denials, Study Finds
Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 23:21
in Psychology & Sociology
Adults are easily fooled when a child denies that an actual event took place, but do somewhat better at detecting when a child makes up information about something that never happened. These findings have important implications for forensic child sexual abuse evaluations.
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