Teenage Offenders' Ability to Detect Deception in Their Peers

Truth, lies, and videotape: an investigation of the ability of federal parole officers to detect deception.

The ability of a group of Canadian federal parole officers to detect deception was investigated over the course of 2 days of lie detection training. On the first day of training, 32 officers judged the honesty of 12 (6 true, 6 fabricated) videotaped speakers describing personal experiences, half of which were judged before and half judged after training. On the second day, 5 weeks later, 20 of ...

What errors do peer reviewers detect, and does training improve their ability to detect them?

OBJECTIVE To analyse data from a trial and report the frequencies with which major and minor errors are detected at a general medical journal, the types of errors missed and the impact of training on error detection. DESIGN 607 peer reviewers at the BMJ were randomized to two intervention groups receiving different types of training (face-to-face training or a self-taught package) and a contr...

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The Use of Physiological Measures to Detect Deception in Juveniles

This study examined the effectiveness of a directed lie polygraph test in a juvenile population (9-15 years of age). Eighty-four juveniles were tested regarding their possible involvement in the tearing of a page from a book. A computer model for classifying adults as truthful or deceptive used physiological measures to determine the participant’s involvement in the “crime.” The adult-based mod...

Strategic Interviewing to Detect Deception: Cues to Deception across Repeated Interviews

Previous deception research on repeated interviews found that liars are not less consistent than truth tellers, presumably because liars use a "repeat strategy" to be consistent across interviews. The goal of this study was to design an interview procedure to overcome this strategy. Innocent participants (truth tellers) and guilty participants (liars) had to convince an interviewer that they ha...