Detecting Deception. Current Challenges and Cognitive Approaches

Par Anders Granhag

Detecting Deception offers a state-of-the-art guide to the detection of deception with a focus on the ways in which new cognitive psychology-based approaches can improve practice and results in the field. Includes comprehensive coverage of the latest scientific developments in the detection of deception and their implications for real-world practice. Examines current challenges in the field — such as counter-interrogation strategies, lying networks, cross-cultural deception, and discriminating between true and false intentions. Reveals a host of new approaches based on cognitive psychology with the potential to improve practice and results, including the strategic use of evidence, imposing cognitive load, response times, and covert lie detection.