Other People: A child's age predicts a source's effect on memory
Other People: A child's age predicts a source's effect on memory PurposeFor decades, researchers have investigated the effects of various interviewing techniques used in child witness interviews. One particular technique…
Investigating gender differences in the factor structure of the Gudjonsson Compliance Scale
Investigating gender differences in the factor structure of the Gudjonsson Compliance Scale PurposeThe Gudjonsson Compliance Scale (GCS) remains, in terms of its psychometrics, an under-researched instrument, in which gender differences…
The feasibility of using crime scene behaviour to detect versatile serial offenders: An empirical test of behavioural consistency, distinctiveness, and discrimination accuracy
The feasibility of using crime scene behaviour to detect versatile serial offenders: An empirical test of behavioural consistency, distinctiveness, and discrimination accuracy PurposeTo test whether geographical, temporal, and modus operandi…
Effects of threat, trait anxiety and state anxiety on police officers’ actions during an arrest
Effects of threat, trait anxiety and state anxiety on police officers’ actions during an arrest PurposeWe investigated the effects of threat and trait anxiety on state anxiety and how that…
Appreciating the wrongfulness of criminal conduct: Implications for the age of criminal responsibility
Appreciating the wrongfulness of criminal conduct: Implications for the age of criminal responsibility PurposeAlthough the ability to appreciate the wrongfulness of criminal conduct and to distinguish it from childish mischief…
Sitting duck or scaredy-cat? Effects of shot execution strategy on anxiety and police officers’ shooting performance under high threat
Sitting duck or scaredy-cat? Effects of shot execution strategy on anxiety and police officers’ shooting performance under high threat PurposeLaw enforcement may require police officers to inhibit intuitive responses to…
A cognitive approach to lie detection: A meta-analysis
A cognitive approach to lie detection: A meta-analysis IntroductionThis article provides a meta-analysis of a new, cognitive approach to (non-)verbal lie detection. This cognitive lie detection approach consists of three…
An evaluation of a new tool to aid judgements of credibility in the medico-legal setting
An evaluation of a new tool to aid judgements of credibility in the medico-legal setting PurposeClinical psychologists and other health professionals are often requested to act as expert witnesses in…
Applying the Verifiability Approach to insurance claims settings: Exploring the effect of the information protocol
Applying the Verifiability Approach to insurance claims settings: Exploring the effect of the information protocol PurposeLie detection in insurance claim settings is difficult as liars can easily incorporate deceptive statements…
The effects of the putative confession and parent suggestion on children's disclosure of a minor transgression
The effects of the putative confession and parent suggestion on children's disclosure of a minor transgression PurposeThis study examined the effects of the putative confession (telling the child that an…
Relations between attorney temporal structure and children's response productivity in cases of alleged child sexual abuse
Relations between attorney temporal structure and children's response productivity in cases of alleged child sexual abuse PurposePrevious research has demonstrated that attorney question format relates to child witness' response productivity.…
When discussion between eyewitnesses helps memory
When discussion between eyewitnesses helps memory PurposePolice interviewers are typically instructed to prevent eyewitnesses from talking to each other, because witnesses can contaminate each other's memory. Previous research has not…