Why professionals fail to catch liars and how they can improve (2004)
In the first part of this article, I will briefly review research findings that show that professional lie catchers, such as police officers, are generally rather poor at distinguishing between...
Let me tell you how to tell a convincing story (2004)
Vrij, Aldert, Akehurst, Lucy, Soukara, Stavroula, Bull, Ray
The first aim of this experiment was to examine whether being informed about a method of detecting deception called Criteria-Based Content Analysis (CBCA) would increase participants' CBCA scores...
Vrij, Aldert, Evans, Hayley, Akehurst, Lucy, Mann, Samantha
In the present study it was investigated to what extent observers (i) could make rapid yet reliable and valid judgements of the frequency of verbal and nonverbal behaviours of interviewees (liars and...
Detecting true lies: police officers' ability to detect suspects' lies (2004)
Mann, Samantha, Vrij, Aldert, Bull, Ray
Ninety-nine police officers, not identified in previous research as belonging to groups which are superior in lie detection, attempted to detect truths and lies told by suspects during their...
Detecting deceit via analyses of verbal and nonverbal behaviour in children and adults (2004)
Vrij, Aldert, Akehurst, Lucy, Soukara, Stavroula, Bull, Ray
This experiment examined children's and undergraduates' verbal and nonverbal deceptive behavior, and the extent to which their truths and lies could be correctly classified by paying attention to...
Using grounded theory to examine people's attitudes toward how animals are used (2003)
Knight, Sarah, Nunkoosing, Karl, Vrij, Aldert, Cherryman, Julie
This study uses qualitative methodology to examine why people have different attitudes toward different types of nonhuman animal use. Seventeen participants took part in a semi-structured interview....