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View article: Addressing Unanswered Questions About the Shift of Strategy Approach: A Multi-Study Investigation of Approach Variations, Repeated Interviews, and Innocent Versus Guilty Responses
Addressing Unanswered Questions About the Shift of Strategy Approach: A Multi-Study Investigation of Approach Variations, Repeated Interviews, and Innocent Versus Guilty Responses Open
Introduction. The Shift-of-Strategy (SoS) approach aims to obtain concealed information from semi-cooperative suspects by prompting them to shift toward more forthcoming counter-interrogation strategies. While previous studies on the appro…
View article: Increasing the Disclosure of Information from Suspects in Investigative Interviews Through Brief Training in the Shift-of-Strategy Approach
Increasing the Disclosure of Information from Suspects in Investigative Interviews Through Brief Training in the Shift-of-Strategy Approach Open
The Shift-of-Strategy (SoS) approach is a recently developed interviewing technique designed to encourage semi-cooperative suspects to disclose more information. The approach’s efficacy has previously been demonstrated in highly controlled…
View article: Child Sexual Abuse Material Users on the Darknet: Psychiatric Morbidities Related to Offence Behavior
Child Sexual Abuse Material Users on the Darknet: Psychiatric Morbidities Related to Offence Behavior Open
Individuals engaging in child sexual abuse often present pedophilic interest, but the other psychiatric morbidities among undetected users of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) are largely unknown. We mapped the psychiatric profile of 160 …
View article: What Fifty Years of Research on the Misinformation Effect Can Tell Us: A Meta-Analytic Review
What Fifty Years of Research on the Misinformation Effect Can Tell Us: A Meta-Analytic Review Open
BackgroundThis meta-analysis investigates the impact of misleading or incorrect information on subsequent reporting of witnessed events, with a focus on identifying moderators that influence the misinformation effect.MethodsWe included exp…
View article: Validating Measures of Mental Abstraction
Validating Measures of Mental Abstraction Open
Within Construal Level Theory dozens of dependent variables have been used to measure mental abstraction. However, the majority of these have not been substantively validated. We tried to rectify this by conducting validation studies of se…
View article: Judging Consent in Sexual Encounters: The Influence of Sexual Identity and Attitudes Toward Consent
Judging Consent in Sexual Encounters: The Influence of Sexual Identity and Attitudes Toward Consent Open
Past literature on sexual consent has primarily focused on straight populations, finding significant differences in the consent behaviours and attitudes of men and women. While some literature suggests that sexual minority status is associ…
View article: Correction: Self-reported impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, affective responding, and subjective well-being: A Swedish survey
Correction: Self-reported impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, affective responding, and subjective well-being: A Swedish survey Open
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258778.].
View article: The Doctrine of Eternal Security: A Reflection on Perseverance of the Saints
The Doctrine of Eternal Security: A Reflection on Perseverance of the Saints Open
One of the basic tenets in Christian doctrine is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints, also known as Eternal Security. It provides a guarantee of eternal security for their salvation. According to this doctrine, once a person has…
View article: Intermittent escitalopram treatment and reactive aggression in women with premenstrual irritability and anger: A crossover study
Intermittent escitalopram treatment and reactive aggression in women with premenstrual irritability and anger: A crossover study Open
The results suggest that the behavioral consequences of severe premenstrual irritability/anger are not easily captured by traditional measures of reactive aggression and underline the importance of considering individual differences in sym…
View article: Configuration, not Content: A Network Perspective on Gendered Prototypes of Intimate Partner Violence
Configuration, not Content: A Network Perspective on Gendered Prototypes of Intimate Partner Violence Open
Research on perceptions of intimate partner violence (IPV) has primarily focused on heterosexual relationships with male perpetrators and female victims. The oversight of same-sex couples, and relationships with female abusers and male vic…
View article: Managing disclosure outcomes in intelligence interviews
Managing disclosure outcomes in intelligence interviews Open
We introduce the disclosure-outcomes management model. The model views disclosure in intelligence interviews as a behaviour interviewees use to profitably navigate self-interest dilemmas. We theorized that interviewees compare the potentia…
View article: Advancing the Shift-of-Strategy approach: Shifting suspects'strategies in extended interviews.
Advancing the Shift-of-Strategy approach: Shifting suspects'strategies in extended interviews. Open
The study provides support for the effectiveness of eliciting new information through the SoS approach and illuminates possible experiential downsides with being subjected to the SoS-Reinforcement approach. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 20…
View article: What have we learned about cues to deception? A survey of expert opinions
What have we learned about cues to deception? A survey of expert opinions Open
Researchers have accumulated a substantial body of empirical work studying observable behaviors that might distinguish truth tellers from liars – that is, cues to deception. We report a survey of N = 50 deception cue experts – active resea…
View article: Similarity, Not Universality: An Examination of Cross-Country Differences in Personality with a Network Modeling Approach
Similarity, Not Universality: An Examination of Cross-Country Differences in Personality with a Network Modeling Approach Open
Based on decades of research, many proponents of trait theories of personality, such as the five-factor model, have argued that personality structure is universal and that broader traits cause their specific behavioral manifestations. If t…
View article: Perkins Operations: Tactics Used in Undercover Interactions
Perkins Operations: Tactics Used in Undercover Interactions Open
In the United States, it is permissible to place an undercover police officer in the jail cell with a suspect. This tactical move is rare and launched only for serious crimes, and it takes place before any charges have been filed. This tac…
View article: An Idiographic Paradigm for Research on Cues to Deception: An Urgent Proposal
An Idiographic Paradigm for Research on Cues to Deception: An Urgent Proposal Open
We introduce a novel individual-focused paradigm to the scientific study of deception cues. Past research on deception cues compares the behavior of truth tellers and liars at the group level, suitable for answering the question how the be…
View article: Advancing The Shift-Of-Strategy Approach: Shifting Suspects’ Strategies in Extended Interviews
Advancing The Shift-Of-Strategy Approach: Shifting Suspects’ Strategies in Extended Interviews Open
The Shift-of-Strategy (SoS) approach is an interrogation technique designed to obtain new information from suspects. The SoS approach elicits information by shifting suspects’ counter-interrogation strategies from less, to more forthcoming…
View article: What’s the Net Benefit of a Nudge? Prosocial Defaults Affect Both Targeted and Subsequent Behaviour
What’s the Net Benefit of a Nudge? Prosocial Defaults Affect Both Targeted and Subsequent Behaviour Open
Although nudging is increasingly recognized as an important policy tool for encouraging prosocial behaviour, there is little empirical evidence about downstream effects of such interventions. In five experiments, we explore behavioural spi…
View article: Rape Myth Acceptance as Networks of Discursive Expressions
Rape Myth Acceptance as Networks of Discursive Expressions Open
For the last four decades, researchers have developed quantitative measures of the acceptance of rape myths – cultural tropes that justify sexual violence. From their initial conceptualization, rape myths were thought to exist at a cultura…
View article: What Have We Learned About Cues to Deception? A Survey of Expert Opinions
What Have We Learned About Cues to Deception? A Survey of Expert Opinions Open
Researchers have accumulated a substantial body of empirical work studying observable behaviors that might distinguish truth tellers from liars—that is, cues to deception. We report a survey of N = 50 deception cue experts—active researche…
View article: Exploring how members of illicit networks navigate investigative interviews
Exploring how members of illicit networks navigate investigative interviews Open
This study explored how members of an illicit network navigate investigative interviews probing their crimes. We examined how perceived disclosure outcomes, namely, the projected costs and benefits, affect what members choose to reveal. We…
View article: Exploring How Members of Illicit Networks Navigate Investigative Interviews
Exploring How Members of Illicit Networks Navigate Investigative Interviews Open
This study explored how members of an illicit network navigate investigative interviews probing their crimes. We examined how perceived disclosure outcomes, namely, the projected costs and benefits, affect what members choose to reveal. We…
View article: The process of replication target selection in psychology: what to consider?
The process of replication target selection in psychology: what to consider? Open
Increased execution of replication studies contributes to the effort to restore credibility of empirical research. However, a second generation of problems arises: the number of potential replication targets is at a serious mismatch with a…
View article: An Unexpectedly Weak Link: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Association of Child Maltreatment and Adolescent Substance Use
An Unexpectedly Weak Link: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Association of Child Maltreatment and Adolescent Substance Use Open
Developmental theory, clinical experience, and past research provide ample reason to expect an association between child maltreatment and substance use in adolescence. The present study meta-analyzed effect sizes (k = 196) from 22 studies …
View article: Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction: A Registered Report of Four Tests of Construal Level Theory (Stage 1 Registered Report)
Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction: A Registered Report of Four Tests of Construal Level Theory (Stage 1 Registered Report) Open
Construal level theory (CLT) proposes that psychological distance influences the level of abstraction at which something is mentally construed: things perceived as less probable (likelihood distance) or further away from the here (spatial …
View article: The Process of Replication Target Selection in Psychology: What to Consider?
The Process of Replication Target Selection in Psychology: What to Consider? Open
Increased execution of replication studies contributes to the effort to restore credibility of empirical research. However, a second generation of problems arises: the number of potential replication targets is at a serious mismatch with a…
View article: Deception in the Interrogation Room: A Framework for Understanding the Psychology of Deceptive Investigative Practices
Deception in the Interrogation Room: A Framework for Understanding the Psychology of Deceptive Investigative Practices Open
Interviews and interrogations represent opportunities for law enforcement to collect information in investigations and to contribute to criminal prosecutions. In many jurisdictions, police are legally permitted to engage in deception in in…