Verbal Lie Detection

Pär Anders Granhag is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the past President of the European Association of Psychology & Law (EAPL) and he was for many years the Editor for the international journal Applied Cognitive Psychology. He has published over 300 scientific reports on topics such as deception detection, eyewitness testimony, interview techniques and investigative decision-making. He is the founding Director of the research unit for Criminal, Legal and Investigative Psychology (CLIP), Sweden. Galit Nahari is the Dean of the Social Sciences Faculty and a Professor in the Department of Criminology at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. For seven years, she served as Editor-in-Chief of Legal and Criminological Psychology, a leading journal in the field. Her research spans a variety of topics in deception, lie detection, decision-making, and investigative interviewing. She developed the Verifiability Approach, which has shaped both research orientation and professional training in verbal lie detection worldwide. Alongside her scientific work, she promotes collaborations between academia and the field across study programs, research, consulting, and specialized training.

• ContributorsIntroduction – What is Verbal Lie Detection?AcknowledgementsSECTION I: VERBAL LIE DETECTION: BACKGROUND1 The History of Verbal Lie DetectionPär Anders Granhag2 Theories on Verbal Lie DetectionMaria Hartwig and Pär Anders Granhag3 Memory and DeceptionGalit NahariSECTION II: ESTABLISHED APPROACHES4 Criteria-based Content Analysis and the Reality Monitoring Approach: State of the Art, Recommendations and Future DirectionsJaume Masip and Siegfried L. Sporer5 The Verifiability Approach: Current Conception and DevelopmentsGalit Nahari and Zvi Nisin6 The Model Statement Technique: Why, How and What Now?Sharon Leal and Ashlie Leal7 The Strategic Use of Evidence (SUE) Technique: Implementation and ApplicationsPär Anders Granhag and Maria Hartwig8 Cognitive Processes in Detecting DeceptionRon P. Fisher and Jacqueline R, EvansSECTION III: CURRENT CHALLENGES9 Cross-Cultural Aspects of Deception DetectionEunkyung Jo and JinBag Kim10 Deception in GroupsZarah Vernham11 Deception and Its Detection in ChildrenVictoria Talwar and Angela M. Crossman12 Detecting False Intent: A Semi-Systematic ReviewLara Warmelink13 The Shift-of-Strategy (SoS) approach: From deception to new informationLina Nyström, Pär Anders Granhag, and Timothy J. LukeSECTION IV: APPLICATIONS & META-ISSUES14 Training to Detect DeceptionElizabeth Elliott, Christian A. Meissner, Stephen W. Michael, Justin S. Albrechtsen, and H. Chad Lane15 Bridging Research to Practice: From Conversations to the Lab to the Training Room - and Back AgainLorraine Hope, Anna Leslie, Paul Taylor, and Simon Wells16 Using Verbal Lie Detection to Detect Actual LiesRobert Horselenberg and Peter J. van Koppen17 Searching for Blind Spots in Cognitive Load Lie Detection TheoryErik Mac Giolla18 Confirmation Bias in the Application of Lie Detection ToolsGershon Ben ShakharSECTION V: PERSONAL REFLECTIONSIndex