Part two of the Deception Blog round-up of “all those articles I haven’t had a chance to blog about”. Part one was about catching liars via non-mechanical techniques. This post covers articles and discussion about new technologies to detect deception, including fMRI and measurement of Event-Related Potentials.
fMRI and deception: discussion on the journal [...]
University of California – Davis press release (17 August):
Adults are easily fooled when a child denies that an actual event took place, but do somewhat better at detecting when a child makes up information about something that never happened, according to new research from the University of California, Davis….
“The large number of children coming into [...]
According to a report in the New York Times (14 Sept), an Indian judge has taken the results a brain scan as “proof that the [murder] suspect’s brain held ‘experiential knowledge’ about the crime that only the killer could possess”, and passed a life sentence.
The Brain Electrical Oscillations Signature test, or BEOS, was developed by [...]
Jeffrey Bellin from the California Courts of Appeal has a paper forthcoming in Temple Law Review on the legal issues involved in deploying new lie detection technology – specifically fMRI technology – in real-world courtroom settings (hat tip to the Neuroethics and Law blog ).
Bellin examines the ’scientific validity’ requirements and argues that the research [...]
Anne Reed has posted a couple of thoughtful pieces on deceptive jurors over at her Deliberations Blog.
In part I of “When Jurors Lie” Anne highlights the extent of the problem of potential jurors lying to get onto a jury. For example:
One of the jurors who convicted Martha Stewart, “by far the most outspoken juror on [...]
Hat tip to Prof Peter Tillers for pointing us to a paper from Charles Keckler, George Mason University School of Law, on admissibility in court of neuroimaging evidence of deception. Here’s the abstract:
The last decade has seen remarkable process in understanding ongoing psychological processes at the neurobiological level, progress that has been driven technologically [...]
Hat tip to Mind Hacks (25 June) for alterting us to the fact that the organisers of the conference on The Law and Ethics of Brain Scanning: Coming soon to a courtroom near you?, held in Arizona in April, have uploaded both the powerpoint presentations and MP3s of most of the lectures to the conference [...]
A press release from the Association for Psychological Science (13 June) draws attention to research by Elke Geraerts, a psych post doc from Harvard and Maastricht Universities. Geraerts and her colleagues have a paper coming out next month in Psychological Science, presenting results of research on the accuracy of ‘recovered memories’, decribed in the [...]
Deliberations, a blog about “Law, news, and thoughts on juries and jury trials” has been keeping my attention since its launch in February.
Anne Reed, a trial lawyer and jury consultant from Wisconsin, posts regularly on research and news relating to juries and court cases. If you have an interest in the psychology of juries [...]
Shankar Vedantam comments on the Scooter Libby trial, from The Washington Post (19 Feb):
The perjury trial of Lewis “Scooter” Libby goes to the jury this week. The case speaks to several issues – how the Bush administration deals with critics of the war in Iraq, and the games that Washington’s reporters and politicians play with [...]
Via OmniBrain (28 March 06), a rather troubling report that “brain scans” have been used in the trial of an alleged rapist in India.
The results of the brain-mapping and polygraph (lie-detector) tests conducted on rape accused Abhishek Kasliwal have come out in favour of the prosecution. The Mumbai Police had conducted the tests on March [...]
Veronica S. Tetterton and Amye R. Warren
Criminal Justice and Behavior, 32(4), 433-451, August 2005
Prior research has shown that jurors rely on confidence in discriminating between accurate and inaccurate testimonies despite the weak relationship between the two. The purpose of this study is to learn if truth seekers also use confidence in judging truthfulness. In two [...]
