Detecting Deception

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.

• Contributors vii Series Preface xiIntroduction xvAcknowledgements xixSECTION I: Deception Detection: Established Approaches 11 Verbal Lie Detection Tools: Statement Validity Analysis, Reality Monitoring and Scientific Content Analysis 3Aldert Vrij2 New Findings in Non-Verbal Lie Detection 37Charles F. Bond, Timothy R. Levine, and Maria Hartwig3 The Polygraph: Current Practice and New Approaches 59Ewout H. Meijer and Bruno Verschuere4 Forensic Application of Event-Related Brain Potentials to Detect Guilty Knowledge 81William G. Iacono5 Deception Detection Using Neuroimaging 105Giorgio GanisSECTION II: Current Challenges 1236 Exploring the Nature and Origin of Beliefs about Deception: Implicit and Explicit Knowledge among Lay People and Presumed Experts 125Maria Hartwig and Pär Anders Granhag7 Discriminating between True and False Intentions 155Erik Mac Giolla, Pär Anders Granhag, and Aldert Vrij8 Cross-Cultural Deception Detection 175Paul J. Taylor, Samuel Larner, Stacey M. Conchie, and Sophie van der ZeeSECTION III: Improving Lie Detection: New Approaches 2039 A Cognitive Approach to Lie Detection 205Aldert Vrij10 The Strategic Use of Evidence Technique: A Conceptual Overview 231Pär Anders Granhag and Maria Hartwig11 Investigating Deception and Deception Detection with Brain Stimulation Methods 253Giorgio Ganis12 Detecting Deception Through Reaction Times 269Bruno Verschuere, Kristina Suchotzki, and Evelyne Debey13 Suspects’ Verbal Counter-Interrogation Strategies: Towards an Integrative Model 293Pär Anders Granhag, Maria Hartwig, Erik Mac Giolla, and Franziska Clemens14 Covert Detection of Deception 315Eitan ElaadIndex 339

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