Drawings as a lie detection tool

clipped from www.newscientist.com CSI: Doodle – lie detection through art No lie detector is anywhere near foolproof, and existing techniques, including polygraph tests and brain scans, have the added drawback of requiring specialised, expensive equipment, says Aldert Vrij, a forensic psychologist at the University of Portsmouth, UK. clipped from abcnews.go.com Vrij wondered whether asking someone to draw a scene might work instead: as liars have not had direct visual experience of what they are describing, they might draw a scene differently to someone who was actually there. clipped from www.port.ac.uk Psychology Prof. Aldert Vrij clipped from www3.interscience.wiley.com Drawings as an innovative and successful lie detection tool Aldert Vrij 1 *, Sharon Leal 1, Samantha Mann 1, Lara Warmelink 1, Par Anders Granhag 2, Ronald P. Fisher 3 clipped from neuronarrative.wordpress.com N e u r o n a r r a t i v e If You Want to Catch a Liar, Make Him Draw Using the “sketching the agent” result alone, it was possible to identify 80% of the truth tellers and 87% of the liars – results superior to most traditional interview techniques.