The relationship between nonverbal communication and deception continues to attract
much interest, but there are many misconceptions about it. In this review, we present a …

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 …

Little is known about the cognition of deception (Gombos, 2006). We propose a cognitive
account of serious lying (ie, deception involving high stakes) in response to a solicitation of a …

The past decade has seen a new wave of research centering on strategic ways of
interviewing suspects in order to elicit cues to truth and deception. The Strategic Use of …

This chapter describes the Strategic Use of Evidence (SUE) technique–an interview method
aimed at eliciting cues to deception, and thereby improving the chances of correct …

Proponents of “enhanced interrogation techniques” in the United States have claimed that
such methods are necessary for obtaining information from uncooperative terrorism …

In this article, I present my view on the significant developments and theoretical/empirical
tipping points in nonverbal and verbal deception and lie detection from the last 30 years and …

This article provides an overview of verbal lie detection research. This type of research
began in the 1970s with examining the relationship between deception and specific words …

Deception research regarding insurance claims is rare but relevant given the financial loss
in terms of fraud. In S tudy 1, a field study in a large multinational insurance fraud detection …

Purpose. Most past research on detecting deception has relied on the assumption that liars
often fabricate a story to account for their whereabouts, whereas truth tellers simply recall an …