Recent DNA exonerations have shed light on the problem that people sometimes confess to
crimes they did not commit. Drawing on police practices, laws concerning the admissibility of …

The question of whether discernible differences exist between liars and truth tellers has
interested professional lie detectors and laypersons for centuries. In this article we discuss …

Pre-interview planning is vital in interviews with suspects. Via a questionnaire administered
to 596 police investigators in Singapore, the current study examined potential associations …

As illustrated by the mistaken, high-profile fingerprint identification of Brandon Mayfield in
the Madrid Bomber case, and consistent with a recent critique by the National Academy of …

Why do people lie? Do gender and personality differences affect how people lie? How can
lies be detected? Detecting Lies and Deceit provides the most comprehensive review of …

Objectives We completed a systematic review and meta-analysis of the available empirical
literature assessing the influence of accusatorial and information-gathering methods of …

In April 1989, a young woman was attacked while jogging in New York City's Central Park.
The jogger entered the park near 84th Street shortly after 9: 00 pm, traveled north along the …

Abstract [This book] packages the discipline [of social psychology] in thirty-one crisp and
playful essays (" modules"). This is the ultimate brief text in social psychology—a quick …

Interrogation and confession-taking is of interest to a wide audience. To political scientists
and sociologists, police interrogation offers a paradigm case of the constitutional exercise …

Recently, in a number of high-profile cases, defendants who were prosecuted, convicted,
and sentenced on the basis of false confessions have been exonerated through DNA …