PSYC 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Paul Ekman, Lie Detection, Facial Action Coding System
6 May 2016
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Reid technique: has 9 steps/ characteristics o accusation o confrontation if they try to deny, talk over them, interrupt when they try to explain their side o control control everything, even the furniture, who is in the room , and removal of control from suspect, isolation o give them good/ bad option for doing the crime, both of which lead to admission of guilt o make sure you get the confession verbally and written down. Scc in canada believes any average jury can see deception, jury is full of average everyday people: how accurate are we at detecting lies? o not much better than chance, only a little bit above, 54 57% chance, not much better than flipping a coi, better at being able to pick out truth tellers a little more than when they are lying, not much better than chance, but a little more than lying.
