The present study investigated the beliefs of students and police officers about cues to
deception. A total of 95 police officers and 104 undergraduate students filled out a …

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 …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the complexity of missing persons cases
and highlight the linguistic differences that arise in this type of crime. Missing persons cases …

Content‐based techniques for credibility assessment (Criteria‐Based Content Analysis
[CBCA], Reality Monitoring [RM]) have been shown to distinguish between experience …

The Scientific Content Analysis (SCAN) is a verbal veracity assessment method that is
currently used worldwide by investigative authorities. Yet, research investigating the …

This chapter introduces seven verbal lie detection techniques and discusses whether they
are ready for use in investigative interviews: Statement Validity Assessment (SVA), Reality …

Purpose Verbal credibility assessments examine language differences to tell truthful from
deceptive statements (eg, of allegations of child sexual abuse). The dominant approach in …

Purpose Understanding when an individual is being deceptive is an important part of police
and criminal investigations. While investigators have developed multiple methods, the …

The current paper describes potential systematic errors (or biases) that may appear while
applying content-based lie detection tools, by focusing on richness in detail–a core indicator …

Corpus Linguistic Approaches to Deception Detection provides an innovative introduction to
the use of the corpus linguistics methodology in the field of deception detection. Bringing …