Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1
Chapter 2 TELLING AND DETECTING LIES 7
Some Characteristics of Deception 7
Nonverbal Behaviour and Deception 11
Verbal Behaviour and Deception: Criteria-Based Content Analysis 19
Physiological Reactions and Deception: The Polygraph 20
Detecting Lies 25
Difficulties and Pitfalls for Lie Detectors 28
Summary and Conclusion 36
Chapter 3 FACIAL APPEARANCE AND CRIMINALITY 37
Matching Faces to Crimes 38
Attractiveness 39
Facial Appearance and Deceit 41
Police Officers 41
Children 42
Facial Surgery for Criminals 43
Frequency of Facial Abnormality 44
Weak Methodologies 45
Does Facial Appearance have an Effect in the Courtroom? 46
Attributions of Responsibility 48
Group Decision Making 50
Meta-analysis 51
Real-Life Court Proceedings 52
Summary and Conclusion 55
Chapter 4 INTERVIEWING SUSPECTS 57
How to Get the Suspect to Talk 58
How to Let the Suspect Talk 65
How Many Suspects Confess and Why? 68
Quality of the Interview 71
False Confessions 76
Summary and Conclusion 85
Chapter 5 INTERVIEWING WITNESSES 87
The Effects of Long Delays 88
Facial Identification 92
Individual Differences 93
Suggestibility 93
Suggestion from Stereotypes 96
Interviewing Vulnerable Witnesses 99
Contributions from Cognitive Psychology 100
Contributions from Social Psychology 101
Interviewer Manner 102
Summary and Conclusion 106
Chapter 6 PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS INEYEWITNESS TESTIMONY 107
Estimator Variables and System Variables in Eyewitness Identification 108
Estimator Variables 109
System Variables 120
Summary and Conclusion 125
Chapter 7 FALSE MEMORIES 127
Repression, Amnesia and Memory for Early Childhood Experiences 128
Adults' Memories for Traumatic and Non-traumatic Events 132
Implanting False Memories 135
Mechanisms Responsible for the Creation of False Memories and Beliefs 139
Verifying the Accuracy of Recovered Memories in the Courtroom 143
Summary and Conclusion 145
Chapter 8 JURY DECISION MAKING 147
The Jury System in Different Countries 148
Empirical Research on Juries: Methodology 149
Juror Characteristics 150
How the Social Perceptions of Jurors May Influence Decisions 152
Social Identity and Juror Decisions 152
Prior Character Evidence 153
Publicity Before and During the Trial 155
The Story Model 159
Evidence 160
Aiding Juries 165
Judge/Lawyer Characteristics 166
Jury Deliberation 166
Summary and Conclusion 167
Chapter 9 THE ROLE OF EXPERT WITNESSES 169
Admissibility of Expert Testimony 170
Expert Testimony: Its Impact on Jury Decision Making 172
Examples of Research on the Impact of Expert Testimony 175
Ethical Issues 177
The Hired Gun Effect 178
Objectivity in Child Abuse Trials 178
Summary and Conclusion 179
REFERENCES 181
INDEX 221