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Aldert Vrij

Researcher at University of Portsmouth

Publications -  401
Citations -  17189

Aldert Vrij is an academic researcher from University of Portsmouth. The author has contributed to research in topics: Deception & Lie detection. The author has an hindex of 63, co-authored 384 publications receiving 15810 citations. Previous affiliations of Aldert Vrij include University of Amsterdam.

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Tracking the truth: the effect of face familiarity on eye fixations during deception

TL;DR: Memory detection by eye movements during recognition of personally familiar and famous celebrity faces was negligibly affected by lying, thereby demonstrating that detection of memory during lies is influenced by the prior learning of the face.
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Lie prevalence, lie characteristics and strategies of self-reported good liars

TL;DR: This study conducted a survey to explore the association between laypeople’s self-reported ability to deceive on the one hand, and their lie prevalence, characteristics, and deception strategies in daily life on the other, and observed that self- reported good liars highly relied on verbal strategies of deception.
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“We Will Protect Your Wife and Child, but Only If You Confess”

Aldert Vrij
TL;DR: The purpose of a police interrogation is to obtain further information about a crime that has been committed as mentioned in this paper, and the importance of the interview depends on the evidence available in the case.
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The Verifiability Approach to detection of malingered physical symptoms

TL;DR: This paper found that participants who report fabricated symptoms (malingerers) present fewer verifiable details than those who report genuine ill-health symptoms (truth tellers) and that malingerers generated longer statements with more unverifiable details.
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Rape Reporting to the Police: Exploring the Social Psychological Impact of a Persuasive Campaign on Cognitions, Attitudes, Normative Expectations and Reporting Intentions*:

TL;DR: In this paper, persuasive communication campaigns are suggested as a feasible instrument to stimulate victim-reporting, and a working model to design and evaluate such persuasion campaigns is presented. But their effectiveness in changing the perceived likelihood of positive outcomes associated with reporting, and in strengthening the perceived normative expectations to report, held by others in the potential victim's environment, are discussed.