Memory Detection: Theory and Application of the Concealed Information Test

by Edited by Bruno Verschuere , Gershon Ben-Shakhar , Ewout Meijer

• ISBN13: 9780521769525
• ISBN10: 0521769523
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 ofthis, the validity of such methods is questionable. As an alternative, a knowledge-based approach known as the ôConcealed 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. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Bruno Verschuere is an associate professor of forensic psychology at the Pyschology Department, University of Amsterdam. Gershon Ben-Shakhar is a professor emeritus of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and former President of the Open University of Israel. Ewout MeiJer is an assistant professor the Psychology and Neuroscience Department of Maastricht University.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. x
List of tables	p. xii
Notes on contributors	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction
Science on the rise: birth and development of the Concealed Information Test	p. 3
Encouraging the use of the Guilty Knowledge Test (GkT): what the Gkt has to offer law enforcement	p. 12
The laboratory: theoretical and empirical foundations of the Concealed Information Test
Detecting Concealed Information using autonomic measures	p. 27
Detecting concealed information in less than a second: response latency-based measures	p. 46
P300 in detecting concealed information	p. 63
Detecting of deception and concealed information using neuroimaging techniques	p. 90
New and old covert measures in the Concealed Information Test	p. 114
Theory of the Concealed Information Test	p. 128
Field applications of concealed information detection: promises and perils
Limitations of the Concealed Information Test in criminal cases	p. 151
Validity of the Concealed Information Test in realistic contexts	p. 171
Leakage of information to innocent suspects	p. 187
Countermeaures	p. 200
Psychopathy and the detection of concealed information	p. 215
Clinical applications of the Concealed Information Test	p. 231
Daily application of the Concealed Information Test	p. 253
The Concealed Information Test in the courtroom: legal aspects	p. 276
Practical guidelines for developing a CIT	p. 293
Epilogue: current status and future developments in CIT research and practice	p. 303
Index
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