Lecture: Thursday 7th October, 2004

Pehnomenology at the Limits Lecture

WHY PEOPLE FAIL TO CATCH LIARS AND HOW WE CAN IMPROVE
Professor Aldert Vrij,
Professor of Social PsychologyUniversity of Portsmouth

To be held in:The Lecture Theatre, Department of Academic Psychiatry,
The Longley Centre, Sheffield.
Convenor: Dr Sean Spence
Talk begins at 5.30pm - Refreshments available from 5.00pm.

ABSTRACT
In the first part of this talk, Professor Vrij will briefly review research findings that show that professional lie catchers, such as police officers, are generally rather poor at distinguishing between truths and lies. He believes that there are many reasons contributing towards this poor ability, and will give an overview of these reasons. He also believe that professionals could become better lie detectors and will explain how?

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Aldert Vrij is a Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. Professor Vrij’s main fields of interest are social and criminal psychology, which he teaches on the BSc (Hons) Psychology. His research interests are deception, police officers’ shooting behaviour,interviewing suspects, interviewing children, and ethnic prejudice. Most of his research deals with deception. He investigates both nonverbal correlates of deception and verbal correlates of deception, and has received research grants from ESRC, Leverhulme Trust and Dutch Ministry of Justice.

EVERYONE WELCOME