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Strategic Use of Evidence During Police Interviews: When Training to Detect Deception Works

Strategic Use of Evidence During Police Interviews: When Training to Detect Deception Works Research on deception detection in legal contexts has neglected the question of how the use of evidence can affect deception detection accuracy. In this study, police trainees (N = 82) either were or were not trained in strategically using the evidence when interviewing lying or truth telling mock suspects (N = 82). The trainees’ strategies as well as liars’ and truth tellers’ counter-strategies were analyzed. Trained interviewers applied different strategies than did untrained. As a consequence of this, liars interviewed by trained interviewers were more inconsistent with the evidence compared to liars interviewed by untrained interviewers. Trained interviewers created and utilized the statement-evidence consistency cue, and obtained a considerably higher deception detection accuracy rate (85.4%) than untrained interviewers (56.1%). http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Law and Human Behavior American Psychological Association

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Publisher
American Psychological Association
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 American Psychological Association
ISSN
0147-7307
eISSN
1573-661X
DOI
10.1007/s10979-006-9053-9
pmid
16977348
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Abstract

Research on deception detection in legal contexts has neglected the question of how the use of evidence can affect deception detection accuracy. In this study, police trainees (N = 82) either were or were not trained in strategically using the evidence when interviewing lying or truth telling mock suspects (N = 82). The trainees’ strategies as well as liars’ and truth tellers’ counter-strategies were analyzed. Trained interviewers applied different strategies than did untrained. As a consequence of this, liars interviewed by trained interviewers were more inconsistent with the evidence compared to liars interviewed by untrained interviewers. Trained interviewers created and utilized the statement-evidence consistency cue, and obtained a considerably higher deception detection accuracy rate (85.4%) than untrained interviewers (56.1%).

Journal

Law and Human BehaviorAmerican Psychological Association

Published: Oct 15, 2006

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