Here are the deception-related crimepsychblog tweets from last month.
Technology-facilitated deception detection (brain scans and machines that go ping):
Thermal Imaging as a Lie Detection Tool at Airports http://retwt.me/1QhzC
New research on fMRI-based deception detection measures’ vulnerability to countermeasures http://retwt.me/1QbCJ
Article on fMRI in court is one of Nature News top stories of 2010. Well worth a (re)read. http://retwt.me/1QfBJ
New [...]
The news that made me happiest in the last few weeks is here: Government abandons lie detector tests for catching benefit cheats (The Guardian, 9 Nov):
The government has dropped plans to introduce controversial lie detector tests to catch benefit fraudsters after trials found that the technology is not sufficiently reliable. The Department for Work and [...]
It’s still hard to find the time to keep Crimepsychblog and the Deception Blog updated and I am not sure when (if ever) I will have the time to post as regularly as I used to. Meanwhile I’m still finding plenty of interesting links and papers so rather than waiting til I have time to [...]
The first 2010 issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry is a special issue on Delusion and Confabulation and includes the following articles:
Delusion and confabulation: Overlapping or distinct distortions of reality? Robyn Langdon; Martha Turner
Varieties of confabulation and delusion, Michael D. Kopelman
The affective neuropsychology of confabulation and delusion, Aikaterini Fotopoulou
The role of personal biases in the explanation of [...]
Happy new year! Here is the final part of the 2008 deception research round-up, put together to make amends for having neglected this blog over the past few months. This post includes bits and pieces of deception research that didn’t fit too well into the first five round-up posts. Hope you’ve enjoyed them [...]
On to part 4 of this series on research published in 2008 that I didn’t get a chance to blog about when it came out, where we take a peek at some of the new research on circumstances in which people lie and what makes them seem credible.
Part 1: Catching liars
Part 2: New technologies
Part 3: [...]
The 3rd International Conference on Investigative Interviewing will be held 16-18 June 2008 in Quebec, Canada. The theme is “The Search for the Truth”. According to the website:
This conference is mainly addressed to:
• investigators and civilian and police personnel from Québec, Canadian, and international police forces;
• investigators from Quebec, Canadian, and international governmental [...]
Hat tip to blog.bioethics.net (a great blog associated with the American Journal of Bioethics):
This past week NPR’s Morning Edition carried a three-part series about lie detection reported by Dina Temple-Raston. (The segments are posted as both audio and text, so they’re easy to scan if you can’t listen.) The series covers the questionable accuracy of [...]
Via Secrecy News (12 Feb), news of a US Department of Defense Directive [pdf] (number 5210.48, issued 25 Jan 07) relating to the polygraph and “credibility assessment”. The latter term is defined as:
The multi-disciplinary field of existing as well as potential techniques and procedures to assess truthfulness that relies on physiological reactions and behavioral [...]
Hat tip to Paul Barrett’s IDANET mailing list:
This study investigated the fakability of the Emotional Quotient Inventory Short Form (EQ-i:S), a mixed-model emotional intelligence test developed by Bar-On (2002). A sample of 229 undergraduate students from a southeastern university completed a battery of selection and assessment measures in both an honest and faking good condition. [...]
The Truth Lies and Romance blog has published a useful list of web resources on deception.
Most of the links are already in the right hand bar on this page, or in the useful links pages here and here (yes, I know they’re a mess – one day I’ll find time to tidy them up), but [...]
Friends Provident (a financial services company) has garnered a fair amount of interest in the media with a pop survey of deception behaviour. Here’s how Reuters (28 Dec) covered it:
Gadgets seen as best way to tell white lies
More than four out of five people admit to telling little white lies at least once a [...]
The latest issue of Behavioral Sciences and the Law (Sept 2006) is a special on malingering. According to PsychNet-UK (drawing on DSM-IV):
Malingering can be expressed in several forms from pure malingering in which the individual falsifies all symptoms to partial malingering in which the individual has symptoms but exaggerates the impact which they [...]
…so says Peter Collett, reports BBC News (5 Sept). Collett made his claims at the British Academy Festival of Science this week:
A politician can never fib flawlessly because their body language will always give them away, psychologists say. No amount of coaching or media training can co-ordinate the hand gestures and facial expressions [...]
If you’re in Australia, and you’re interested in deception, you may well have seen the SBS Insight one hour programme “Liar liar” today at 7.30pm which is now yesterday in Australia… But it’s repeated Friday 25th August at 1pm and Monday 28th August at 2pm so if you missed it you’ll get another chance.
More [...]
Via Wired , an article on Forbes.com (2 June) on deception in résumés (or Curricula Vitae to us Brits).
[...] The percentage of people who lie to potential employers is substantial, says Sunny Bates, CEO of New York-based executive-recruitment firm Sunny Bates Associates. She estimates that 40 percent of all résumés aren’t altogether aboveboard.
And this game [...]
The Society for Judgment and Decision Making email list tipped me off to an interesting paper from Nina Mazar and Dan Ariely from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. As the abstract explains:
Dishonest acts are all too prevalent in day-to-day life. In the current review, we examine some possible psychological causes for such dishonesty [...]
Another new book on lying was published last month. The Truth About Lies by Andy Shea and Steve Van Aperen doesn’t seem to be available in the UK or US, but I have it on order from the publisher and may review it here in due course. (If you’ve read it, please let [...]
An excellent, interesting and detailed article from the New York Times this weekend about the science and practice of lie detection. The author, Robin Marantz Henig, covers many areas, including developments and problems in fMRI deception detection, ERPs and ongoing research at the DoDPI. She interviews several of the key figures in these [...]
