Detecting Deception: Current Challenges and Cognitive Approaches

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John Wiley & Sons, Jan 20, 2015 - Psychology - 368 pages

Detecting Deception offers a state-of-the-art guide to the detection of deception with a focus on the ways in which new cognitive psychology-based approaches can improve practice and results in the field.

  • Includes comprehensive coverage of the latest scientific developments in the detection of deception and their implications for real-world practice
  • Examines current challenges in the field - such as counter-interrogation strategies, lying networks, cross-cultural deception, and discriminating between true and false intentions
  • Reveals a host of new approaches based on cognitive psychology with the potential to improve practice and results, including the strategic use of evidence, imposing cognitive load, response times, and covert lie detection
  • Features contributions from internationally renowned experts
 

Contents

Deception Detection Established
3
New Findings in NonVerbal Lie Detection
37
Current Practice and New Approaches
59
Forensic Application of EventRelated Brain Potentials
81
Deception Detection Using Neuroimaging
105
Current Challenges
123
Discriminating between True and False Intentions
155
Department of Psychology
171
Improving Lie Detection New Approaches
203
School of Psychology University of Plymouth Plymouth
223
Erik Mac Giolla
249
Investigating Deception and Deception Detection
253
Detecting Deception Through Reaction Times
269
Covert Detection of Deception
315
Index
339
Copyright

CrossCultural Deception Detection
175

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About the author (2015)

Pär Anders Granhag is Professor of Psychology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has published over 200 scientific reports on topics relating to deception detection and is the Founding Director of the Research Unit for Criminal, Legal and Investigative Psychology.

Aldert Vrij is Professor of Applied Social Psychology at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the author of Detecting Lies and Deceit: Pitfalls and Opportunities (2008).

Bruno Verschuere is Associate Professor of Forensic Psychology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is a Founding Member of the European consortium of Psychological Research on Deception Detection, and co-editor of Memory Detection: Theory and Application of the Concealed Information Test.

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