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More About This Title Psychology and Law - Truthfulness, Accuracy &Credibility 2e
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This second edition has been revised and updated to reflect the large amount of new research in the area, making it the essential guide for all courses with a legal component.
Comment on the first edition:
"This is an excellent appraisal of the psychology of evidence...it provides thorough, substantial and up-to-date accounts of modern developments."
—Denniss Howitt, Loughborough University, UK
- Written by well known and respected authors
- Suitable as an introductory, undergraduate text
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ProfessorAldert Vrij is Professor of Applied Social Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. His main area of expertise is deception, mainly the nonverbal and verbal characteristics of deception, and he has published widely on these issues. For conducting this research, he has received grants from the ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the Dutch Organisation of Scientific Research (the Dutch equivalent of the ESRC) and the Dutch Ministry of Justice. He gives workshops on deception to police officers in several countries on a regular basis.
Professor Ray Bull is Professor of Forensic Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. His main areas of expertise are police interviewing and the relationship between physical appearance and criminality, topics on which he has published extensively. He is regularly invited to present seminars and lectures to police audiences in many countries. His most recent externally funded research project was from the Innovative Research Challenge Fund of the Home Office for work on improving children’s face recognition performance.
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Preface.
Chapter 1. Introduction.
Chapter 2. Telling and Detecting Lies.
Chapter 3. Facial Appearance and Criminality.
Chapter 4. Interviewing Suspects.
Chapter 5. Interviewing Witnesses.
Chapter 6. Psychological Factors in Eyewitness Testimony.
Chapter 7. False Memories.
Chapter 8. Jury Decision Making.
Chapter 9. The Role of Expert Witnesses.
References.
Index.
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“…informs and captivates the reader…” (Applied Cognitive Psychology, July 04)