Psychology 2032A/B Lecture 4: Detecting Deception

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

The reid model in action - going wrong: Written vs. verbal: certain populations are vulnerable to misunderstanding their legal rights, young people, people with impaired intellectual capacity. Investigator bias: officers enter the accusatorial phase of the interrogation with the belief that the suspect is guilty, this can lead to biased perceptions and behaviours on the part of the interrogator and observers of the interrogations (ex. Types of false confessions: voluntary false confessions, confessions without pressure, without being prompted by police, can be the result of. Inability to distinguish fact from fantasy: desire of notoriety, protecting the real offender, a need to be punished, ex. It is assumed that investigators can detect deception when moving from stage 2 to 3 of the reid. If you can tell the sequence of events in chronological orders, then you should be able to tell it backwards aswell.