Making A Case: Interviewing Suspects
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- Created on: 15-04-15 14:30
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- Interviewing Suspects (Making A Case)
- Mann: Police officers ability to detect suspects' lies.
- Cues to lying:
- Avoiding eye contact.
- Touching face, throat/mouth.
- Timing of emotional gestures.
- Placing objects as a barrier.
- Repeating the wording of the question in the answer.
- Unnecessary details to an answer is added due to discomfort with silence.
- Field Experiment.
- 99 Kent police officers.
- Judge the truthfulness of people in real-life police interviews.
- Answer a questionnaire about their experiences of detecting lies. Saw video clips of 14 suspects. The 54 clips varied in length from 6-145 secs.
- Officers performed than chance, 66.2% accurate on lies & 63.6% on truths.
- Afterwards, they had to say whether asked for their decision, how confident they were & make a note of the cues to detect the liars.
- Frequently mentioned cues were: gaze, movements, vagueness, contradictions & fidgeting.
- Cues to lying:
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- Mann: Police officers ability to detect suspects' lies.
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