How Consistency and Alleged Perpetrator Relationship Affect Adults' Credibility and Coaching Judgements in Child Sexual Abuse Cases.
Child sexual abuse (CSA) victims often withhold disclosure due to coaching by the alleged perpetrator to deny the abuse. Adults, however, are generally poor at detecting coached lies in children, potentially because such reports are highly consistent. However, little is known about how the victim-al...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child Sexual Abuse Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 338 - 353 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr2026
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