Cues to deception and ability to detect lies as a function of police interview styles.

• DOI: 10.1007/s10979-006-9066-4
• Publication Date: 2007-01-08T14:39:19Z
• Authors: Aldert Vrij; Samantha Mann; Susanne Kristen; Ronald P. Fisher
• Keywords: Lying; Officer; Lie detection

In Experiment 1, we examined whether three interview styles used by the police, accusatory, information-gathering and behaviour analysis, reveal verbal cues to deceit, measured with Criteria-Based Content Analysis (CBCA) Reality Monitoring (RM) methods. A total of 120 mock suspects told truth or lied about a staged event were interviewed police officer employing one these styles. The results showed that accusatory interviews, which typically result in making short denials, contained fewest deceit. Moreover, RM distinguished between tellers liars better than CBCA. Finally, manual coding resulted more deception automatic criteria utilising Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC) software programme. 2, effects on ability detect deception. Sixty-eight officers watched some videotaped interviews 1 made veracity confidence judgements. Accuracy scores did not differ styles; however, watching false accusations (accusing lying) interviews. Furthermore, only judgements mendacity associated higher confidence. We discuss possible danger conducting