February 2018

Accurate expert deception detection: Faulty premises in Vrij et al. (2015)

This essay is a rejoinder to a commentary by Vrij et al. (2015) that was critical of Levine et al.’s (2014) experiments showing exceptionally high deception detection accuracy by expert interrogators. We contend that highly accurate deception detection is possible under conditions where contextualized communication content is diagnostic and where an interrogator is allowed to actively solicit honest confessions....

Author(s): Timothy R. Levine and  J. Pete Blair