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A “weapon focus” effect in children

Professor Graham M. Davies School of Psychology, University of Leicester, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Sarah Smith School of Psychology, University of Leicester, UK
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Christine Blincoe School of Psychology, University of Leicester, UK
Pages 19-28 | Received 15 Mar 2007, Published online: 30 Nov 2007

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Kerri L. Pickel & Danielle E. Sneyd. (2018) The weapon focus effect is weaker with Black versus White male perpetrators. Memory 26:1, pages 29-41.
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JonathanM. Fawcett, EmilyJ. Russell, KristineA. Peace & John Christie. (2013) Of guns and geese: a meta-analytic review of the ‘weapon focus’ literature. Psychology, Crime & Law 19:1, pages 35-66.
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Tomoko Sugimura. (2011) Difficulty among young children in remembering bystanders: young children's omission errors in eyewitness memory for a real-life event. Psychology, Crime & Law 17:4, pages 293-303.
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John C. Yuille, Marguerite Ternes & Barry S. Cooper. (2010) Expert Testimony on Laboratory Witnesses. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice 10:3, pages 238-251.
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KerriL. Pickel. (2009) The weapon focus effect on memory for female versus male perpetrators. Memory 17:6, pages 664-678.
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Alistair J. Harvey & Alistair Sekulla. (2021) Evidence of alcohol induced weapon focus in eyewitness memory . Applied Cognitive Psychology 35:5, pages 1263-1272.
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Alistair J. Harvey, Braden Shrimpton, Zoe Azzopardi, Katherine O'Grady, Emily Hicks, Emily Hirst & Keenan Atkinson‐Cox. (2020) The influence of alcohol and weapon presence on eyewitness memory and confidence. Applied Cognitive Psychology 34:2, pages 489-503.
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Kerstin Kocab & Siegfried Ludwig Sporer. 2016. Advances in Psychology and Law. Advances in Psychology and Law 71 117 .
Jens Knutsson & Carl Martin Allwood. (2015) Swedish Legal Professionals' Opinions on Child and Adult Witness Memory-reporting Capabilities: Using the Method of Indirect Comparisons. Applied Cognitive Psychology 29:3, pages 392-406.
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William Blake Erickson, James Michael Lampinen & Juliana K. Leding. (2014) The Weapon Focus Effect in Target-Present and Target-Absent Line-Ups: The Roles of Threat, Novelty, and Timing. Applied Cognitive Psychology 28:3, pages 349-359.
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Tomoko Sugimura. (2010) Eyewitness memory of a real-life event. Journal of Human Environmental Studies 8:2, pages 181-187.
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