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Assessing Truthfulness on the Witness Stand : Eradicating Deeply Rooted Pseudoscientific Beliefs about Credibility Assessment by Triers of Fact

@inproceedings{Snook2017AssessingTO,
  title={Assessing Truthfulness on the Witness Stand : Eradicating Deeply Rooted Pseudoscientific Beliefs about Credibility Assessment by Triers of Fact},
  author={B. Snook and Meagan I. McCardle and Weyam Fahmy and J. C. House},
  year={2017}
}
  • B. Snook, Meagan I. McCardle, +1 author J. C. House
  • Published 2017
    • The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) ruled in R. v. S. (N.) (2012) that a witness’ face provides useful cues to deceit that are important for trial fairness, and that the need to view a witness’ face while testifying ‘‘is too deeply rooted in the criminal justice system to be set aside absent compelling evidence” (para, 27). In this commentary, we present compelling empirical evidence that (a) the vast majority of cues to deception are too faint for reliable deception detection, (b) most facial… CONTINUE READING
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