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Finding the truth in the courtroom : dealing with deception, lies, and memories / edited by Henry Otgaar and Mark L. Howe.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: x, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0190612010
  • 9780190612016
Other title:
  • Dealing with deception, lies, and memories
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 347.064 23
LOC classification:
  • K5490 .F56 2018
Contents:
1. Deception and Memory in the Courtroom: An Overview / Henry Otgaar and Mark L. Howe -- Part I. Memory in the Courtroom : -- 2. Misinformation in the Courtroom / Shari R. Berkowitz and Elizabeth F. Loftus -- 3. Suggestibility in the Courtroom: How Memory Can Be Distorted During the Investigative and Legal Process / Fiona Gabbert and Lorraine Hope -- 4. When Spontaneous Statements Should Not Be Trusted: False Memories in Children and Adults / Henry Otgaar and Mark L. Howe -- 5. A Neurobiological Account False Memories / Vincent van de Ven, Henry Otgaar, and Mark L. Howe -- Part II. Children in the Courtroom : -- 6. Assessing the Veracity of Children's Forensic Interviews: Implications for the Courtroom / Hayden M. Henderson and Samantha J. Andrews -- 7. Putting Children's Memory and Suggestibility in their Place: An Analysis Considering Person, Topic, and Context / Deborah Goldfarb, Gail S. Goodman, Rakel P. Larson, Alejandra Gonzalez, and Mitchell L. Eisen -- Part III. Deception in the Courtroom : -- 8. Nonverbal Detection of Deception / Aldert Vrij -- 9. Building a Case: The Role of Empirically Based Interviewing Techniques in Case Construction / Timothy J. Luke, Maria Hartwig, Laure Brimbal, and Pär Anders Granhag -- 10. Deception Detection Using Psychophysiological and Neural Measures / Ewout H. Meijer and Bruno Verschuere -- Part IV. Malingering in the Courtroom : -- 11. Seven Myths About Feigning / Marko Jelicic, Harald Merckelbach, and Irena Boskovi -- 12. False Symptom Claims and Symptom Validity Assessment / Thomas Merten.
Summary: "Finding the Truth in the Courtroom focuses on how legal professionals, legal/forensic psychologists, and memory researchers can decide when statements or identifications are based on truthful or fabricated experiences and whether one can distinguish between lies, deception, and false memories. The contributors, key experts in the field, assemble recent experimental work and case studies in which deception or false memory plays a dominant role."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Deception and Memory in the Courtroom: An Overview / Henry Otgaar and Mark L. Howe -- Part I. Memory in the Courtroom : -- 2. Misinformation in the Courtroom / Shari R. Berkowitz and Elizabeth F. Loftus -- 3. Suggestibility in the Courtroom: How Memory Can Be Distorted During the Investigative and Legal Process / Fiona Gabbert and Lorraine Hope -- 4. When Spontaneous Statements Should Not Be Trusted: False Memories in Children and Adults / Henry Otgaar and Mark L. Howe -- 5. A Neurobiological Account False Memories / Vincent van de Ven, Henry Otgaar, and Mark L. Howe -- Part II. Children in the Courtroom : -- 6. Assessing the Veracity of Children's Forensic Interviews: Implications for the Courtroom / Hayden M. Henderson and Samantha J. Andrews -- 7. Putting Children's Memory and Suggestibility in their Place: An Analysis Considering Person, Topic, and Context / Deborah Goldfarb, Gail S. Goodman, Rakel P. Larson, Alejandra Gonzalez, and Mitchell L. Eisen -- Part III. Deception in the Courtroom : -- 8. Nonverbal Detection of Deception / Aldert Vrij -- 9. Building a Case: The Role of Empirically Based Interviewing Techniques in Case Construction / Timothy J. Luke, Maria Hartwig, Laure Brimbal, and Pär Anders Granhag -- 10. Deception Detection Using Psychophysiological and Neural Measures / Ewout H. Meijer and Bruno Verschuere -- Part IV. Malingering in the Courtroom : -- 11. Seven Myths About Feigning / Marko Jelicic, Harald Merckelbach, and Irena Boskovi -- 12. False Symptom Claims and Symptom Validity Assessment / Thomas Merten.

"Finding the Truth in the Courtroom focuses on how legal professionals, legal/forensic psychologists, and memory researchers can decide when statements or identifications are based on truthful or fabricated experiences and whether one can distinguish between lies, deception, and false memories. The contributors, key experts in the field, assemble recent experimental work and case studies in which deception or false memory plays a dominant role."--Publisher's website.

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