A new article from Zina Lee, Jessica R. Klaver and Stephen D. Hart reminds us that we need to be careful when assuming that promising results from lie detection studies where people without serious psychopathology are the subjects can be generalised to a forensic context.
Lee et al wondered whether a tool commonly used for assessing [...]
If you were a police officer, what sort of interview style would offer you the best chance of detecting whether or not your interviewee was telling lies? Aldert Vrij and his colleagues ran a study to find out:
In Experiment 1, we examined whether three interview styles used by the police, accusatory, information-gathering and behaviour [...]
The latest issue of Psychology, Crime and Law features an article by Aldert Vrij and Sam Mann from Portsmouth University (UK) on Criteria-Based Content Analysis
Here’s the abstract:
Criteria-Based Content Analysis (CBCA) is a tool to assess the veracity of written statements, and is used as evidence in criminal courts in several countries in the world. CBCA [...]
Iris Blandon-Gitlin, Kathy Pezdek, Martha Rogers and Laura Brodie
Law and Human Behavior 29(2), April 2005, pp 187-197
The CBCA is the most commonly used deception detection technique worldwide. Pezdek et al. (2004) used a quasi-experimental design to assess childrenrsquos accounts of a traumatic medical procedure; CBCA ratings were higher for descriptions of familiar than unfamiliar events. [...]
Iris Blandon-Gitlin, Kathy Pezdek, Martha Rogers and Laura Brodie
Law and Human Behavior 29(2), pp 187-197, April 2005
The CBCA is the most commonly used deception detection technique worldwide. Pezdek et al. (2004) used a quasi-experimental design to assess childrenrsquos accounts of a traumatic medical procedure; CBCA ratings were higher for descriptions of familiar than unfamiliar events. [...]
Applied Cognitive Psychology Volume 18, Issue 7 , Pages 877 – 891
The effects of training professional groups and lay persons to use criteria-based content analysis to detect deception
Lucy Akehurst, Ray Bull, Aldert Vrij, Gunter Kohnken
This experiment was designed to assess, for the first time, the effects of training police officers, social workers and students in [...]
