Authorities referenced in the APA's Amicus Briefs may come from Books, Book Chapters, APA Web Documents, Law Reviews and Scholarly Journals.
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Book Example:
Bartlett, Sir Frederick Charles, Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology (1932). This is a full book and you can search the title underlined here. If you don't find it at RWU, search Libraries Worldwide and request Interlibrary Loan if you need it.
Book Chapter Example:
Pezdek, Kathy, Content, Form, and Ethical Issues Concerning Psychological Expert Testimony on Eyewitness Identification, in Expert Testimony on the Psychology of Eyewitness Identification 29 (Brian L. Cutler ed., 2009) -- Search Expert Testimony on the Psychology of Eyewitness Identification to find the book that contains the specific chapter.
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Deffenbacher, Kenneth, et al., A Meta-Analytic Review of the Effects of High Stress on Eyewitness Memory, 28 Law & Hum. Behav. 687 (2004).
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