Investigating the Truth: Selected Works of Ray Bull (World Library of Psychologists)

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions. The Selected Works of Professor Ray Bull include some of the most influential insights into the psychology of investigative interviewing. Whether it has been determining whether a suspect is lying or telling the truth, enabling children to provide reliable testimony, or understanding how the dynamics of the interview process itself can affect what is achieved, Professor Bull has been at the forefront in researching this fascinating area of applied psychology for over 40 years, his work informing practice internationally. An elected Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society and the first Honorary Life Member of the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group, Professor Bull also drafted parts of the government's Memorandum of Good Practice and of Achieving Best Evidence on Video Recorded Interviews with Child Witnesses for Criminal Proceedings. Including a specially written introduction in which Professor Bull reflects on a wide-ranging career and contextualises how the field has evolved, this collection will be a valuable resource for students and researchers of forensic psychology. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Contributors Introduction 1 : Evaluation of police recruit training involving psychology 2 : Recall after briefing:television versus face-to-face presentation 3 : Isolating the effects of the cognitive interview techniques 4 : Does the cognitive interview help children to resist the effects of suggestive questioning? 5 : The enhanced cognitive interview: expressions of uncertainty, motivation and its relation with report accuracy 6 : Child witnesses in Scottish criminal trials 7 : A state of high anxiety: how non-supportive interviewers can increase the suggestibility of child witnesses 8 : The investigative interviewing of children and other vulnerable witnesses:psychological research and working/professional practice 9 : True lies: police officers’ ability to detect suspects’ lies 10 : Helping to sort the liars fromthe truth-tellers: the gradual revelation of information during investigative interviews 11 : Maximising opportunities to detect verbal deception:training police officers to interview tactically 12 : What really happens in police interviews of suspects? Tactics and confessions 13 : Examining rapport in investigative interviews with suspects: does its building and maintenance work? 14 : Police strategies and suspect responses in real-life serious crime interviews 15 : What is ‘believed’ or actually ‘known’ about characteristicsthat may contribute to being a good/effective interviewer? Index