Veracity Judgments Based on Complications: A Training Experiment
Abstract Research has shown that complications are more common in truth tellers’ accounts than in lie tellers’ accounts, but there…
Aldert Vrij
Cues to deception: can complications, common knowledge details, and self-handicapping strategies discriminate between truths, embedded lies and outright lies in an Italian-speaking sample?
Abstract Deception research has shown that analysing verbal content can be effective to distinguish between truths and lies. However, most…
Verbal Lie Detection: Its Past, Present and Future
Abstract This article provides an overview of verbal lie detection research. This type of research began in the 1970s with…
How researchers can make verbal lie detection more attractive for practitioners
Abstract Over the last 30 years deception researchers have changed their attention from observing nonverbal behaviour to analysing speech content.…
Verifiability on the run: an experimental study on the verifiability approach to malingered symptoms
Abstract Several studies on the verifiability approach found that truth-tellers report more verifiable details than liars. Therefore, we wanted to…
Automated verbal credibility assessment of intentions: The model statement technique and predictive modeling
Abstract Recently, verbal credibility assessment has been extended to the detection of deceptive intentions, the use of a model statement,…
Strong, but Wrong: Lay People’s and Police Officers’ Beliefs about Verbal and Nonverbal Cues to Deception
Abstract The present study investigated the beliefs of students and police officers about cues to deception. A total of 95…
Scientific Content Analysis (SCAN) Cannot Distinguish Between Truthful and Fabricated Accounts of a Negative Event
Abstract The Scientific Content Analysis (SCAN) is a verbal veracity assessment method that is currently used worldwide by investigative authorities.…