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 …

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 …

Passionate, courageous, and at times controversial, The Anatomy of Violence is a ground-
breaking work that will challenge your core human values and perspectives on violence …

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 …

The widespread supposition that aspects of facial communication are uncontrollable and
can betray a deceiver's true emotion has received little empirical attention. We examined the …

The authors report a meta-analysis of individual differences in detecting deception, confining
attention to occasions when people judge strangers' veracity in real-time with no special …

Detecting deception is an inherently difficult task, but one that plays a critical role for law
enforcement investigators in the interrogation room. In general, research has failed to …

Abstract The Central Park jogger case and other recent exonerations highlight the problem
of wrongful convictions, 15% to 25% of which have contained confessions in evidence …

Ninety-nine police officers, not identified in previous research as belonging to groups that
are superior in lie detection, attempted to detect truths and lies told by suspects during their …

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 …