PSYC 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: D.C. Sniper Attacks, Offender Profiling, Geographic Profiling

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2001
• Professor: Jordan Schoenherr

Document Summary

Tell stories that make less sense: pauses, ums and uhs . Fidgeting when lying: thought commonly assumed to be indicators. People tell stories and other told to determine whether they are lying. No one is very good at determining deception. Relying on the wrong cues to: hard to combine all the different source of deception. Number of studies vs. number of participants. Are people in forensic areas better at detecting deception: nobody is particularly good at it. Methodological issues surrounding studies: participants brought into a research lab (controlled studies) Does not generalize to real world settings. Zuckerman et al. (1984: not a lot can be done to improve accuracy levels, presented with feedback. Increased accuracy: improved performance does not generalize, recent exceptions: Teaching people what reliable indications of deception are. Douglas, 1986: a technique for identifying the personality and behavioural features of an offender based on an analysis of the crimes he/she committed.