... is to investigate the ability to detect deception as a function of perceived experience, in a sample of German police officers and police trainees. Design/methodology/approach The authors had the participants judge ten video recordings of a mock crime with respect to the displayed suspects’ truthfulness...

...Timothy W. Armistead Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss unresolved problems that are reflected in the social scientific research on the linguistic detection of deception in statements, with particular attention to problems of methodology, practical utility for law enforcement...

...Timothy W. Armistead Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the most recently published and most comprehensively designed study of scientific content analysis (SCAN), a widely used but rarely researched method of content analysis for detecting deception in written statements. Design...