New research: “Why don’t we believe non-native speakers? The influence of accent on credibility” J. Exp Soc Psy http://is.gd/dWINO #
New research: “Anger as a cue to truthfulness” Truth-tellers accused of wrongdoing show more anger than liars, but… http://is.gd/dWIVx #
How police interviewers’ influence strategies affect whether suspects from different cultures provide info. http://is.gd/dTgJL #
Journal article on investigative interviewing practices in China. http://is.gd/dTh28 #
Journal article: Truth bias and regression toward the mean phenomenon in detecting deception. http://is.gd/dTimj #
Can the Implicit Association Test be used to distinguish truthful and deceitful witnesses? Yes and no. Journal article: [...]
This is the third in the series of posts on research published in 2008 that I didn’t get a chance to blog about when it came out. The last two were pretty long posts so treat this one as a brief bit of light relief before we get down to the serious business of [...]
New York Times reports on deception in the animal kingdom in A Highly Evolved Propensity for Deceit (22 Dec)
…Deceitful behavior has a long and storied history in the evolution of social life, and the more sophisticated the animal, it seems, the more commonplace the con games, the more cunning their contours.
In a comparative survey of [...]
I was completely charmed by a report in the online science magazine Discover this week (h/t Slashdot):
Robots can evolve to communicate with each other, to help, and even to deceive each other, according to Dario Floreano of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Floreano and his colleagues outfitted robots [...]
Two posts on lying by Dr Steve over at The Top Two Inches blog:
In Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! Dr Steve discusses different types of falsehood, mendacity and self-deception, in an effort to “show how tricky it is to define lying or the lie”. He concludes that
What qualifies something as a [...]
An article in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography reports on a long-term study of how drug-using offenders tell truth and lies in a US drug court. Mackinem (the paper’s first author) is a member of drug court staff, and the discussion of how he and his co-author negotiated the challenges of ‘participant observation’ is as [...]
A recently advertised job that might appeal to a reader of the Deception Blog:
Research Associate: Language Use and Deception, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on a 21-month project investigating language use and deception. The project seeks to broaden our understanding of verbal indicators of deception by [...]
Stan Walters has started a blog to collate his thoughts on lie detection. Walters is one of those very rare people who actually pays attention to research when talking about deception. His book – The Truth About Lying – is the one I consistently recommend when practitioners ask me for an easy-to-understand [...]
If you didn’t want to work for the US DoD at the Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment or weren’t qualified to do so, why not consider working on a deception-related research project at the University of Leicester here in the UK? They are looking for a part-time research associate :
Applications are invited to apply [...]
Scott Henson over at criminal justice blog Grits for Breakfast generously nominated the Deception Blog for a ‘Thinking Blogger’ award on 29 July, which left me smiling to myself for the rest of the morning. Thanks Scott!
The Thinking Blogger meme was initiated by ilker yoldas, who set the following rules:
1. If, and only if, [...]
I don’t usually post details of academic jobs here (they go on Psychology and Crime News instead), but here’s one that may be of particular interest to readers of this blog.
The US DoD Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment (DACA) (formerly the Polygraph Institute) is looking for a Supervisory Research Psychologist to work at its [...]
This is the charming (though rather misleading) title of a post by law prof Peter Tillers in playful mood, musing on David Livingstone Smith’s article Natural-Born Liars that appeared two years ago in Scientific American Mind. Tillers quotes from Livingstone Smith’s article, which discusses how some plants, such as the stunning mirror orchid, use [...]
From media darling, psychologist Prof Richard Wiseman, writing in this weekend’s Guardian Magazine (21 April):
[...] A few years ago I carried out a national survey into lying, focusing on adults. Only 8% of respondents claimed never to have lied. Other work has invited people to keep a detailed diary of every conversation that they have, [...]
On NPR today (11 April), a segment on “the truth behind truth serums”:
Lawyers of alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla have argued that he should not be tried because of questionable interrogation techniques used on him, including the use of truth serums.
Alex Chadwick talks with Dr. Ronald Miller, chair of the anesthesia and perioperative care department [...]
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Lawyers for terror suspect Jose Padilla allege that whilst he was in US government custody he was subjected to “hooding, stress positions, assaults, threats of imminent execution and the administration of ‘truth serums’. ” (New York Times, 22 Feb). Jeff Stein at Congressional Quarterly (23 Feb) asked the Pentagon, CIA, Navy and FBI about [...]
In making social judgments people process effects caused by humans differently from effects caused by non-human agencies. We assume that when they have to predict outcomes that are attributed to non-human causes, people acknowledge their ignorance and try to focus on what is most diagnostic. However, when events are attributed to human agency, they believe [...]
Frederick Schauer and Richard J Zeckhauser from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government have published a paper over at SSRN on “paltering”, another term for ‘not quite’ lying. From the abstract:
A lie involves three elements: deceptive intent, an inaccurate message, and a harmful effect. When only one or two of these elements is [...]
Tributes to David Lyyken in the January 2007 issue of the Association for Psychological Science’s Observer (Volume 20, Number 1), from William G. Iacono, Scott O. Lilienfeld, John Furedy, Don Fowles, Thomas J. Bouchard Jr., Gershon Ben Shakar and Richard J. Rose. Whilst readers of this blog may know Lykken best for his work [...]
