Psychology
Detecting deception
Including research on: Verbal and nonverbal detection of deception (Aldert Vrij; Lucy Akehurst; Sam Mann; Sharon Leal; Jackie Locke); Polygraph (Sharon Leal); Criteria based content analysis (Lucy Akehurst; Sabine Quandte); Malingering in medico-legal contexts (Simon Easton).
Research example
"How to catch a liar". Aldert Vrij, Samantha Mann and Sharon Leal are all involved in a detection of deception project which investigates the effects of increasing cognitive load in an interviewee. They anticipate that putting extra demands on an interviewee will make lying more difficult leading to nonverbal and verbal cue leakage, thus facilitating deception detection.
Recent publications
Akehurst, L., Manton, S. & Quandte, S. (in press). Careful calculation or leap of faith?: A field study of the translation of CBCA ratings to final credibility judgements. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Leal, S., Vrij, A., Mann, S., & Fisher, R. (2010) Detecting true and false opinions: The Devil's Advocate approach as a lie detection aid, Acta Psychologica, 134, 323-329.
Vrij, A., Leal, S., Granhag, P. A., Mann, S., Fisher, R. P., Hillman, J., & Sperry, K. (2009). Outsmarting the liars: The benefit of asking unanticipated questions. Law and Human Behavior, 33, 159-166.
Vrij, A., Mann, S., Fisher, R., Leal, S., Milne, B., & Bull, R. (2008). Increasing cognitive load to facilitate lie detection: The benefit of recalling an event in reverse order. Law and Human Behavior, 32, 253-265.