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Memory Detection: Theory and Application of the Concealed Information Test

Memory Detection: Theory and Application of the Concealed Information Test

by Bruno Verschuere (Editor), Gershon Ben - Shakhar (Editor), EwoutMeijer (Editor)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

Traditional techniques for detecting deception, such as the 'lie-detector test' (or polygraph), are based upon the idea that lying is associated with stress. However, it is possible that people telling the truth will experience stress, whereas not all liars will. Because of this, the validity of such methods is questionable. As an alternative, a knowledge-based approach known as the 'Concealed Information Test' has been developed which investigates whether the examinee recognizes secret information - for example a crime suspect recognizing critical crime details that only the culprit could know. The Concealed Information Test has been supported by decades of research, and is used widely in Japan. This is the first book to focus on this exciting approach and will be of interest to law enforcement agencies and academics and professionals in psychology, criminology, policing and law.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 338
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 24 Feb 2011
ISBN 10: 0521136156
ISBN 13: 9780521136150
Book Overview: The first book to focus on an exciting new alternative to the controversial 'lie-detector tests': the Concealed Information Test.

Media Reviews
'This set of high-quality contributions by a wide-ranging and distinguished group of experimental psychologists demonstrates that the CIT is indeed 'an idea whose time has come'. Experimental psychologists now have a platform to scientifically investigate various facets of the detection of guilt. It is also potentially relevant to that fascinating psychological process: deception, or what, in animals, is the hiding response.' John J. Furedy, Psychophysiologist and Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto
...I find Memory Detection outstanding. Unlike many edited volumes on the Way or Next Way forward, it fairly describes and critiques the extant research. In contrast to many edited volumes, all chapters are clearly written, without jarring changes in style.... --Dr. Richard Bloom, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona, PsycCRITIQUES
Author Bio
Bruno Verschuere is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders - FWO at the Psychology Department of Ghent University. Gershon Ben-Shakhar is a Professor of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and former President of the Open University of Israel. Ewout Meijer is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Psychology and Neuroscience Department of Maastricht University.