Darwin's illegitimate children: How body language experts undermine Darwin's legacy

V Denault, M Zloteanu - Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2022 - cambridge.org
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals has received and continues to receive
much attention from emotion researchers and behavioural scientists. However, the common …

The analysis of nonverbal communication: The dangers of pseudoscience in security and justice contexts

V Denault, P Plusquellec, LM Jupe… - Anuario de Psicología …, 2020 - gredos.usal.es
[EN] For security and justice professionals (eg, police officers, lawyers, judges), the
thousands of peer-reviewed articles on nonverbal communication represent important …

Science or pseudoscience? A distinction that matters for police officers, lawyers and judges

LM Jupe, V Denault - Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Scientific knowledge has been a significant contributor to the development of better
practices within law enforcement agencies. However, some alleged 'experts' have been …

Justice at risk! An evaluation of a pseudoscientific analysis of a witness' nonverbal behavior in the courtroom

V Denault, LM Jupe - The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Psychology and law have developed as disciplines through rigorous data collection,
exploration and analysis, and the publication of findings through peer-review processes …

Misconceptions about nonverbal cues to deception: A covert threat to the justice system?

V Denault - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Nonverbal communication is studied by a worldwide community of researchers. Thousands
of peer-reviewed papers have been published on the subject (Plusquellec and Denault …

The use of nonverbal communication when assessing witness credibility: a view from the bench

V Denault, C Leclerc, V Talwar - Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this article is to provide a better understanding of how, in practice, judges use
nonverbal communication during bench trials. The article starts with an overview of legal …

The detection of deception during trials: Ignoring the nonverbal communication of witnesses is not the solution—A response to Vrij and Turgeon (2018)

V Denault, NE Dunbar… - The International Journal …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In their paper 'Evaluating credibility of witnesses—Are we instructing jurors on invalid
factors?', Vrij and Turgeon (2018) argue that jurors should be advised not to consider …

La synergologie révisée par les pairs. Analyse d'une publication

N Rochat, H Delmas, V Denault, B Elissalde… - Revue québécoise de …, 2018 - erudit.org
Les partisans de la synergologie la considèrent comme une discipline scientifique. Mais
l'unique publication révisée par les pairs (Turchet, 2013) comporte des lacunes (utilisation …

Le «langage» non verbal des témoins, quand les pseudosciences s' invitent au tribunal

V Denault - ScriptUM: la revue du colloque VocUM, 2016 - scriptum.vocum.ca
Selon la Cour suprême du Canada, le comportement non verbal des témoins peut affecter
l'évaluation de leur crédibilité (P.(D.) c. S.(C.) 1993). En effet, le juge des faits «a l'avantage …

To veil or not to veil: Detecting lies in the courtroom. A comment on Leach et al.(2016)

V Denault, LM Jupe, O Dodier… - … , Psychology and Law, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
For the past 40 years, lie detection has predominantly been studied in the context of police-
suspect and investigative interviews. In their paper, Leach et al. examined whether niqabs or …