Cross-Cultural Verbal Deception
Background ‘Interviewing to detect deception’ research is sparse across different Ethnic Groups. In the present experiment, we interviewed truth tellers and liars from British,…
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Lessons from the Extreme: What Business Negotiators Can Learn from Hostage Negotiations
Editors’ Note: The high-stakes world of the hostage negotiator draws instinctive respect from other negotiators. But if you operate in another domain, you could…
Predicting Collective Action from Micro-Blog Data
Global and national events in recent years have shown that social media, and particularly micro-blogging services such as Twitter, can be a force for…
Mimicry in Online Conversations: An Exploratory Study of Linguistic Analysis Techniques
A number of computational techniques have been proposed that aim to detect mimicry in online conversations. In this paper, we investigate how well these…
Out with the Old and … In with the Old? A Critical Review of the Financial War on Terrorism on the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant
This article critically considers the effectiveness of the ‘Financial War on Terrorism’ on the funding streams of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant…
The Benefits of a Self-Generated Cue Mnemonic for Timeline Interviewing
Reliable information is critical for investigations in forensic and security settings; however, obtaining reliable information for complex events can be challenging. In this study,…
Culture Moderates Changes in Linguistic Self-Presentation and Detail Provision When Deceiving Others
Change in our language when deceiving is attributable to differences in the affective and cognitive experience of lying compared to truth telling, yet these…
Individual Differences in Susceptibility to Online Influence: A Theoretical Review
Scams and other malicious attempts to influence people are continuing to proliferate across the globe, aided by the availability of technology that makes it…
Collective Interviewing: The Use of a Model Statement to Differentiate between Pairs of Truth-Tellers and Pairs of Liars
Purpose The current experiment examined the use of a model statement for aiding lie detection and gathering additional information during interviews in which pairs…
Press Accept to Update Now: Individual Differences in Susceptibility to Malevolent Interruptions
Increasingly, connected communication technologies have resulted in people being exposed to fraudulent communications by scammers and hackers attempting to gain access to computer systems…