The first issue this year of the Journal of Personality Assessment 88(1) is a special issue on the Personality Assessment Inventory, with free access to full text articles. There are several papers here that will be of value to anyone who is interested in measurement of malingering and deceptiveness, and a few more that [...]
Volume 13 issue 2 of Psychology, Crime & Law (April 2007) is now online, and it’s one of those rare issues where I’ll be reading almost every article.
Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles.
Contents include:
Risk and need assessment in British probation: the contribution of LSI-R – Peter [...]
A serial killing case in India has caused quite a stir in recent weeks, with suspicions that the murders are linked to human organ trafficking operations and allegations of police incompetence in investigating the disappearances of the children. The Observer (UK, 7 Jan) explains:
Forty or more people, ranging from a boy aged 10 months [...]
The October 2006 issue of Law and Human Behavior 30(5) is now available online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Access to LaHB is currently free.
Contents include:
Group Differences in Fairness Perceptions and Decision Making in Voting Rights Cases – Angela P. Cole, Ewart A. C. Thomas
Adults’ [...]
The latest issue of Behavioral Sciences & the Law (Sept 2006) is out, and it’s a special on malingering, edited by Alan Felthous. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for free abstracts and access to the full text articles (subscription required, or you can pay per view).
Introduction to this issue: malingering – Alan [...]
If you haven’t been checking the Deception Blog regularly, these are the items you missed last month:
Police officers ability to detect deception in high stakes situations – 29th August. Report of a study from Aldert Vrij and his colleagues at Portsmouth University, published in the latest issue of Applied Cognitive Psychology
How to detect bullshit [...]
Some of the items in the news that caught my eye over the last week or two:
PRISONS: The Observer (13 Aug), in Jail doesn’t work, say crime victims, highlights a new study from Smart Justice that suggests that:
The vast majority of crime victims do not believe that prison reduces levels of offending [...]. The [...]
Latest posts on the Deception Blog:
Commercialisation of MRI for deception detection – 2nd July 2006
Coverage and commentary about two companies that are about to start offering commercial deception MRI tests
Testing the Behavior Analysis Interview – 2nd July 2006
A new article by Aldert Vrij and colleagues puts the Reid Technique’s BAI to the test.
FOI request [...]
I’ve posted three new items on the Deception Blog this weekend:
27 May: A comment on a recently published study on “Detecting Lies in Children and Adults” by Gail S. Goodman and her colleagues exploring whether observers could detect children’s lies, with results suggesting that we might be biased towards believing adults and disbelieving children.
27 May: [...]
Some news items that caught my eye this week:
Eyewitnesses: Malcolm Gladwell (26 Apr) uses a recent case (an allegation of rape against members of the Duke University Lacrosse team) to make some points about the fallibility of eyewitnesses, particularly in cross-racial identifications:
[...]the Duke case is an example of another, even more problematic aspect of eyewitness [...]
