“If I tell you I’m 13 online, will you believe me?”: implications for undercover internet stings

We examined the extent to which 262 adults, recruited from both a U.S. university sample and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, believed the identity of a 13-year-old boy or girl persona in an online chat room. Sixteen undergraduate confederates (aged 19-38) followed two basic biographical sketches (Amber or...

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Main Authors: Drouin, Michelle, Egan, Vincent, Yergens, Nicholas, Hernandez, Elisa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Psychological Society 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46917/