Behavior

Scientists at City University of New York, Department of Psychology target behavior

Published in Law and Health Weekly, December 9th, 2006

Fresh data on behavior are presented in the report "Strategic use of evidence during police interviews: when training to detect deception works." According to a study from the United States, "Research on deception detection in legal contexts has neglected the question of how the use of evidence can affect deception detection accuracy. In this study, police trainees (N=82) either were or were not trained in strategically using the evidence when interviewing lying or truth telling mock suspects (N=82)."

"The trainees' strategies as well as liars' and truth tellers' counter-strategies were analyzed. Trained interviewers applied different strategies than did untrained. As a...

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Source: Law and Health Weekly (2006-12-09)

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