[Infowarrior] - Detecting deception

[Richard Forno]

(c/o PM)

http://www.start.umd.edu/start/publications/cuestocatchingdeception.pdf  

Detecting deception

START researchers publish primer for studying extremist interviews

To address the challenge of collecting reliable empirical data from
interviews with terrorists and other extremists, a START research team
published a synthesis of recent research across various disciplines
regarding the identification of deception during interviews. The primer
offers terrorism researchers an overview of deception detection best
practices citing literature from psychology, criminology and terrorism
studies.

The overview summarizes research on nonverbal cues, verbal cues and possible
follow-up responses after detecting such cues. It also discusses recommended
tools and techniques to detect deception in an interview setting. The
authors - START Special Projects Interns Rachel Gamson, Jessica Gottesman,
Nicholas Milan and Sitara Weerasuriya - note that while verbal cues are
independently more reliable, the observation of both types of cues increases
the ability of the interviewer to assess deception, particularly when the
cues are compared with an established baseline unique to each individual.

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