Finding Truth Through Forensic Veracity

FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin

LEB • June 2011 • Evaluating Truthfulness and Detecting Deception

Evaluating Truthfulness and Detecting Deception
By David Matsumoto, Hyi Sung Hwang, Lisa Skinner, and Mark Frank
By recognizing certain clues, investigators effectively can identify deception.

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FORENSIC STATEMENT ANALYSIS

October 1996
Statement Analysis:
What Do Suspects' Words Really Reveal?
 By Susan H. Adams, M.A.

   Truth Services Kansas LLC published the first edition of James Greer’s Forensic Statement Analysis, The Truth is but a Chameleon in our words in 2015. From the psychological mind set of the interviewee to the Cognitive Linguistic Interview, this book covers it all.

Disclaimer: names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Statements used are altered to protect the agency, author, and or relatives any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental unless otherwise stated.

2011 American Academy of Forensic Sciences

Efficacy of forensic statement analysis in distinguishing truthful from deceptive eyewitness accounts of highly stressful events.

Morgan CA 3rd, Colwell K, Hazlett GA.

Source Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 234 Church Street, Suite #301, New Haven, CT 06510, USA. charles.a.morgan@yale.edu © 2011 American Academy of Forensic Sciences

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Lying words: predicting deception from linguistic styles.

Newman ML, Pennebaker JW, Berry DS, Richards JM.

Source Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, TX 78712,

Strategic use of evidence during police interviews: when training to detect deception works.

Hartwig M, Granhag PA, Strömwall LA, Kronkvist O.

Source Department of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, New York, NY 10019, USA. mhartwig@jjay.cuny.edu

Study on the use of Linguistics in interviewing proved an average accuracy on truthful suspects was 91% and on deceptive suspects, 80%.  

Differentiation of truthful and deceptive criminal suspects in Behavior Analysis Interviews

School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, East Lansing

J Forensic Sci. 1994 May;39(3):793-807.  Horvath F1, Jayne B, Buckley J.