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Psychology, Crime & Law
33 peer-reviewed polygraph studies · 1994–2026
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Lay person’s and psychology officers’ beliefs about memory, investigative interviewing and deception detection: data from Malaysia
Psychology officers and lay participants in Malaysia both demonstrated significant misconceptions about memory and deception detection, with beliefs about repressed…
Culture and credibility: the assessment of asylum seekers’ statements
The review identifies systematic cultural differences in autobiographical memory style, power distance effects on reporting, acquiescence response styles, and trauma…
Truth in inconsistency? The potential of differential mnemonic consistency in deception detection
Differential mnemonic consistency reliably distinguished experience-based from fabricated statements, with repetition consistency proving superior to retention consistency. Truth-tellers showed significantly…
Lies divorced from context: evidence for Context Embedded Perception (CEP) as a feasible measure for deception detection
CEP scores were significantly lower for liars than truth-tellers, with discriminant analysis achieving 92% correct identification of truth-tellers and 66%…
A trifactorial model of detection of deception using thermography
The 'at least two of three' thermal regions rule achieved 83% accuracy and 13% false alarm rate, substantially outperforming single-indicator…
Younger and older adults’ lie-detection and credibility judgments of children's coached reports
Older adults had significantly lower discrimination scores, a stronger truth bias, and greater confidence compared to younger adults when evaluating…
Problems in expert deception detection and the risk of false confessions: no proof to the contrary in Levine et al. (2014)
The paper concludes that Levine et al.'s findings do not demonstrate genuine expertise in deception detection, as the experimental design…
'I'd know a false confession if I saw one': a constructive replication with juveniles
Overall accuracy averaged just 52.8% correct across both experiments, with transcript-only evaluation producing below-chance accuracy (48.9%) and audio/video presentation yielding…
A non-standard method for estimating the accuracy of lie detection techniques demonstrated on a self-validating set of field polygraph examinations
The study found 94% accuracy for detecting guilty examinees and 83.5% for truthful examinees when excluding 20% inconclusive outcomes. When…
Imposing cognitive load to elicit cues to deceit: Inducing the reverse order technique naturally
Reverse-order recall produced more prominent verbal cues to deception than chronological recall, and human observers achieved higher deception detection accuracy…
Mechanisms underlying response bias in deception detection
Asymmetrical error weighting emerged as the strongest predictor of response bias: participants more concerned about False Alarms showed truth bias,…
Dangerous decisions: The impact of first impressions of trustworthiness on the evaluation of legal evidence and defendant culpability
Untrustworthy-looking defendants were convicted of serious crimes based on less evidence and with greater confidence than comparably trustworthy-looking defendants facing…
The occurrence of eye blinks during a guilty knowledge test
Eye blink suppression during crime-relevant questions successfully distinguished guilty from innocent participants with 76% overall accuracy, supporting the use of…
A new theoretical perspective on deception detection: On the psychology of instrumental mind-reading
The paper presents differential behavioral predictions for guilty versus innocent suspects, including that innocent suspects rarely prepare strategies and believe…
Déjà vu! The effect of previewing test items on the validity of the Concealed Information polygraph Test
Previewing CIT test items with examinees prior to the formal examination did not reduce the physiological differentiation between guilty and…
Guilty and innocent suspects' strategies during police interrogations
Guilty suspects reported significantly higher use of strategic impression management (detailed storytelling, consistency, avoiding direct lies) compared to innocent suspects.…
Challenging interviewees during interviews: The potential effects on lie detection
The most significant behavioral differences between liars and truth tellers emerged in Phase 3 after returning to information-gathering style (η²…
To act truthfully: Nonverbal behaviour and strategies during a police interrogation
No differences in nonverbal behaviors distinguished liars from truth tellers during lengthy, high-stakes police interrogations, despite liars experiencing greater internal…
The detection of deception with the reality monitoring approach: A review of the empirical evidence
Individual RM criteria showed inconsistent performance across studies, with temporal and spatial details demonstrating stronger discriminative power than criteria such…
The relationship of suggestibility and compliance with self-deception and other-deception
Self-deception and other-deception did not significantly correlate with suggestibility or compliance scores, confirming that self-favouring bias does not substantially influence…
How to Detect Deception? Arresting the Beliefs of Police Officers, Prosecutors and Judges
All three professional groups held beliefs about deception detection that contradicted scientific research, with most relying on nonverbal cues like…
Is the inference rule of the control question polygraph technique plausible?
Police interrogators' judgments supported the CQT inference rule, and field data showed truthful outcomes were more common than critics predicted,…
Self-deception and other-deception among admissions to a maximum security hospital and a medium secure unit
Maximum-security patients demonstrated significantly lower other-deception than medium-secure patients after controlling for ethnicity and diagnosis, while self-deception remained stable across…
Who killed my relative? Police officers' ability to detect real-life high-stake lies
Police officers performed no better than chance at detecting the high-stakes lies. Accuracy was unrelated to confidence, age, or professional…
CBCA criteria in statement validity assessment: assessment of child witness statements using criteria-based content analysis
The study achieved 66% classification accuracy but found that age, verbal ability, and interviewer style significantly affected CBCA scores independent…
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