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When help becomes hindrance: Unexpected errors of omission and commission in eyewitness memory resulting from change temporal order at retrieval?

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When help becomes hindrance: Unexpected errors of omission and commission in eyewitness memory resulting from change temporal order at retrieval? / Dando, Coral; Ormerod, Thomas; Wilcock, Rachel et al.
In: Cognition, Vol. 121, No. 3, 12.2011, p. 416-421.

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Dando, C, Ormerod, T, Wilcock, R & Milne, R 2011, 'When help becomes hindrance: Unexpected errors of omission and commission in eyewitness memory resulting from change temporal order at retrieval?', Cognition, vol. 121, no. 3, pp. 416-421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2011.06.015

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Dando, C., Ormerod, T., Wilcock, R., & Milne, R. (2011). When help becomes hindrance: Unexpected errors of omission and commission in eyewitness memory resulting from change temporal order at retrieval? Cognition, 121(3), 416-421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2011.06.015

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Dando C, Ormerod T, Wilcock R, Milne R. When help becomes hindrance: Unexpected errors of omission and commission in eyewitness memory resulting from change temporal order at retrieval? Cognition. 2011 Dec;121(3):416-421. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.06.015

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Dando, Coral ; Ormerod, Thomas ; Wilcock, Rachel et al. / When help becomes hindrance: Unexpected errors of omission and commission in eyewitness memory resulting from change temporal order at retrieval?. In: Cognition. 2011 ; Vol. 121, No. 3. pp. 416-421.

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