How guilty and innocent suspects perceive the police and themselves: suspect interviews in Germany
How guilty and innocent suspects perceive the police and themselves: suspect interviews in Germany Purpose Suspects are central participants of a police interview and can provide crucial information on the…
Validity of the MacDonald triad as a forensic construct: Links with psychopathology and patterns of aggression in sex offenders
Validity of the MacDonald triad as a forensic construct: Links with psychopathology and patterns of aggression in sex offenders Purpose The MacDonald triad is composed of three developmental markers, including…
The effects of cognitive load during an investigative interviewing task on mock interviewers’ recall of information
The effects of cognitive load during an investigative interviewing task on mock interviewers’ recall of information Purpose Although investigative interviewers receive training in interviewing techniques, they often fail to comply…
Verbal cues to deceit when lying through omitting information
Verbal cues to deceit when lying through omitting information Background Lying through omitting information has been neglected in verbal lie detection research. The task is challenging: Can we decipher from…
How emotions affect judgement and decision making in an interrogation scenario
How emotions affect judgement and decision making in an interrogation scenario Purpose Little research exists on the influence of emotion in forensic settings. To start filling this gap, we used…
The acculturation effect and eyewitness memory reports among migrants
The acculturation effect and eyewitness memory reports among migrants Purpose When people migrate to new cultures, they adapt to their new culture while at the same time retaining the norms…
Urgent issues and prospects in reforming interrogation practices in the United States and Canada
Urgent issues and prospects in reforming interrogation practices in the United States and Canada The current article presents a series of commentaries on urgent issues and prospects in reforming interrogation…
Reply to Mac Giolla and Ly (2019): On the reporting of Bayes factors in deception research
Reply to Mac Giolla and Ly (2019): On the reporting of Bayes factors in deception research Bayes factors provide a continuous measure of evidence for one hypothesis (, the null,…
Misinformation encountered during a simulated jury deliberation can distort jurors’ memory of a trial and bias their verdicts
Misinformation encountered during a simulated jury deliberation can distort jurors' memory of a trial and bias their verdicts Purpose Jurors swear to base their verdicts solely on the evidence presented…
Risk relevance of psychometric assessment and evaluator ratings of dynamic risk factors in high‐risk violent offenders
Risk relevance of psychometric assessment and evaluator ratings of dynamic risk factors in high‐risk violent offenders Purpose Relatively little research has been conducted with high‐risk violent (non‐sexual) offenders to establish…
When and how are lies told? And the role of culture and intentions in intelligence‐gathering interviews
When and how are lies told? And the role of culture and intentions in intelligence‐gathering interviews Purpose Lie‐tellers tend to tell embedded lies within interviews. In the context of intelligence‐gathering…
Context effect and confirmation bias in criminal fact finding
Context effect and confirmation bias in criminal fact finding Purpose Fact finding is an important part of the job of criminal trial judges and juries. In the literature, several potential…