Interviewing to detect deception
By Aldert Vrij. 2014
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DePaulo et al.’s (2003) meta-analysis of verbal and nonverbal cues to deception showed that cues to deception are faint and unreliable. If liars do not spontaneously display diagnostic cues to deceit, a logical step is to make sure that investigators elicit or enhance such cues in interviews through specific interview technique. Such interview techniques were scarce in the nonverbal and verbal cues to deception domain, but recently researchers have developed alternative protocols that have their roots in cognition and are based on the assumption that questions can be asked that are more difficult for liars to answer than for truth tellers. They will be discussed in the first part of this article. Traditionally, lie detection in a forensic context concentrated on police-suspect interview settings. However, in the wake of high-profile international terrorist attacks, the importance of identifying terrorist networks and gathering intelligence about the activities of such groups has become paramount. Deceptio...
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Political Science and International Relations, Social Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- A cognitive approach to lie detection: A meta‐analysis (2017, methodology): “Reviews of the cognitive lie detection approach have been published before (Vrij, 2014, 2015; Vrij & Granhag, 2012; Vrij, Granhag, Mann, & Leal, 2011; Vrij, Granhag, & Porter, 2010; Vrij, Leal, Mann, Vernham, & Brankaert, 2015).”
- Is This Testimony Truthful, Fabricated, or Based on False Memory? (2014, background): “Nonetheless, in general, the available findings indicate that behavioral cues for deception are, at best, only faint (Hartwig & Bond, 2011; Vrij, 2014; Vrij & Granhag, 2012).”