Cues to deception and ability to detect lies as a function of police interview styles

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 499-518

  Vrij, Aldert ^a   Mann, Samantha ^a   Kristen, Susanne ^a   Fisher, Ronald P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accusatory interviews, information gathering interviews and the behaviour analysis interview; Criteria based content analysis and reality monitoring; Interviewing to detect deception

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; CRITERIA BASED CONTENT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LINGUISTIC INQUIRY AND WORD COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLICE; REALITY MONITORING METHOD; RECUMBENCY; VIDEOTAPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DECEPTION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIE DETECTION; MALE; POLICE;

EID: 34548585166     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-006-9066-4     Document Type: Article

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