Aldert Vrij

USERN Advisory Board

Biography

I was awarded my PhD in 1991 at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and came to the UK in 1994, when I joined the Psychology Department as a Senior Lecturer. In 1996 I was promoted to Reader and in 2000 to my current position: Professor of Applied Social Psychology.

Research Interests

My main research interest is deception, resulting in almost 600 publications and more than 25,000 citations. I received grants from British Research Councils, Trusts and Foundations, Insurers, Federal Bureau of Investigation and American, British, Dutch, and Singapore Governments, totalling > $11,000,000.

I work closely with practitioners (police, security services and insurers) in terms of conducting research and disseminating its findings. My book Detecting Lies and Deceit: Pitfalls and Opportunities (published by Wiley) is a comprehensive overview of research into (non)verbal and physiological deception and lie detection.

In 2016 I received the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group (iiiRG) Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of my significant contribution to investigative interviewing.

Prize:

2016
The Tom Williamson Award
Professor Aldert Vrij (Recipient), 20 Jun 2016

Recent Publications:
2021
What to reveal and what to conceal? An empirical examination of guilty suspects’ strategies
Meghana Srivatsav, Pär Anders Granhag, Leif Stromwall, Timothy J. Luke & Professor Aldert Vrij, 1 Apr 2021, Investigative Interviewing: Research and Practice, 11, 1, p. 10-27 18 p.
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Facilitating recall and particularisation of repeated events in adults using a multi-method interviewing format
Feni Kontogianni, Eva Rubinova, Professor Lorraine Hope, Paul J. Taylor, Professor Aldert Vrij & Fiona Gabbert, 24 Mar 2021, In: Memory.
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Mnemonic techniques and lie detection: accuracy of truth and deception judgments in repeated accounts
Aleksandras Izotovas, Professor Aldert Vrij & Leif A. Strömwall, 1 Feb 2021, In: Psichologija. 62, p. 44-55 12 p.
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The effects of sketching while narrating on information elicitation and deception detection in multiple interviews
Dr Haneen Deeb, Professor Aldert Vrij, Dr Sharon Leal & Jennifer Burkhardt, 1 Feb 2021, In: Acta Psychologica. 213, 11 p., 103236.
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Combining verbal veracity assessment techniques to distinguish truth tellers from lie tellers
Professor Aldert Vrij, Dr Sam Mann, Dr Sharon Leal & Ronald P. Fisher, 1 Jan 2021, In: The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context. 13, 1, p. 9-19 11 p.
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2020
The social function of the feeling and expression of guilt
Eglantine Camille Caroline Julle-Danière, Jamie Whitehouse, Professor Aldert Vrij, Dr Erik Gustafsson & Bridget Waller, 9 Dec 2020, In: Royal Society Open Science. 7, 12, 10 p., 200617.
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Plausibility: a verbal cue to veracity worth examining?
Professor Aldert Vrij, Dr Haneen Deeb, Dr Sharon Leal, Pär Anders Granhag & Ronald P. Fisher, 23 Nov 2020, In: The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context.
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The Verifiability Approach: a meta-analysis
Nicola Palena, Letizia Caso, Professor Aldert Vrij & Galit Nahari, 19 Nov 2020, In: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.
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Detainee and layperson’s expectations and preferences regarding police interview rooms
Katherine Hoogesteyn, Ewout H. Meijer & Professor Aldert Vrij, 12 Nov 2020, In: PLoS One. 15, 11, 13 p., e0241683.
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Deception detection in repeated interviews: the effects of immediate type of questioning on the delayed accounts
Aleksandras Izotovas, Professor Aldert Vrij, Professor Lorraine Hope, Leif A. Strömwall, Pär A. Granhag & Dr Sam Mann, 16 Oct 2020, In: Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling. 17, 3, p. 224-237 14 p.
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Facilitating memory-based lie detection in immediate and delayed interviewing: the role of sketch mnemonic
Aleksandras Izotovas, Professor Aldert Vrij, Leif A. Strömwall & Dr Sam Mann, 2 Oct 2020, In: Psichologija. 61, p. 68-89
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‘Please tell me all you remember’: a comparison between British and Arab interviewees’ free narrative performance and its implications for lie detection
Professor Aldert Vrij, Dr Sharon Leal, Dr Sam Mann, Dr Zarah Vernham, Mr Gary Dalton, Or Serok-Jeppa, Nir Rozmann, Galit Nahari & Ronald P. Fisher, 11 Sep 2020, In: Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.
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An examination of the Self‐Administered Interview (SAI ) as a verbal veracity assessment tool
Charlotte A. Hudson, Professor Aldert Vrij, Dr Lucy Akehurst & Professor Lorraine Hope, 2 Sep 2020, In: Applied Cognitive Psychology. 34, 5, p. 1083-1091 9 p.
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Veracity is in the eye of the beholder: a lens model examination of consistency and deception
Charlotte A. Hudson, Professor Aldert Vrij, Dr Lucy Akehurst, Professor Lorraine Hope & Liam P. Satchell, 2 Sep 2020, In: Applied Cognitive Psychology. 34, 5, p. 996-1004 9 p.
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“Tell me more about this…”: An examination of the efficacy of follow‐up open questions following an initial account
Feni Kontogianni, Professor Lorraine Hope, Paul J. Taylor, Professor Aldert Vrij & Fiona Gabbert, 2 Sep 2020, In: Applied Cognitive Psychology. 34, 5, p. 972-983 12 p.
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Amplifying recall after delays via initial interviewing: inoculating truth-tellers' memory as a function of encoding quality
Adam Charles Harvey, Professor Aldert Vrij, Dr Sharon Leal, Dr Haneen Deeb, Professor Lorraine Hope & Dr Sam Mann, 1 Sep 2020, In: Acta Psychologica. 209, 103130.
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Verbal cues to deceit when lying through omitting information
Dr Sharon Leal, Professor Aldert Vrij, Dr Haneen Deeb, Charlotte Hudson, Pasquale Capuozzo & Ronald P. Fisher, 1 Sep 2020, In: Legal and Criminological Psychology. 25, 2, p. 278-294
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When and how are lies told? And the role of culture and intentions in intelligence‐gathering interviews
Dr Haneen Deeb, Professor Aldert Vrij, Dr Sharon Leal, Brianna L. Verigin & Steven M. Kleinman, 1 Sep 2020, In: Legal and Criminological Psychology. 25, 2, p. 257-277 21 p.
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Abbinare l’approccio di baseline all'utilizzo di una checklist: effetto sull'accuratezza degli osservatori nel rilevamento della menzogna
Nicola Palena, Letizia Caso, Professor Aldert Vrij & Laura Melocchi, 15 Jul 2020, (Accepted for publication) In: Psychological Research Journal.
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The impact of evidence type on police investigators’ perceptions of suspect culpability and evidence reliability
Minhwan Jang, Timothy J. Luke, Pär-Anders Granhag & Professor Aldert Vrij, 15 Jul 2020, In: Zeitschrift für Politische Psychologie. 228, 3, p. 188-198 11 p.
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Unraveling the misconception about deception and nervous behavior
Professor Aldert Vrij & Ronald P. Fisher, 18 Jun 2020, In: Frontiers in Psychology . 11, 8 p., 1377.
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A within-statement baseline comparison for detecting lies
Brianna L. Verigin, Ewout H. Meijer & Professor Aldert Vrij, 2 Jun 2020, In: Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.
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How do the questions asked affect suspects' perceptions of the interviewer's prior knowledge?
Meghana Srivatsav, Timothy J. Luke, Pär Anders Granhag & Professor Aldert Vrij, 1 Jun 2020, In: Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling. 17, 2, p. 160-172
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The effects of a model statement on information elicitation and deception detection in multiple interviews
Dr Haneen Deeb, Professor Aldert Vrij & Dr Sharon Leal, 1 Jun 2020, In: Acta Psychologica. 207, 14 p., 103080.
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Examining witness interviewing environments
Katherine Hoogesteyn, Ewout H. Meijer & Professor Aldert Vrij, 28 May 2020, In: Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling. 12 p.
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Are there non-verbal signals of guilt?
Eglantine Julle-Danière, Jamie Whitehouse, Alexander Mielke, Professor Aldert Vrij, Dr Erik Gustafsson, Dr Jerome Micheletta & Bridget M. Waller, 24 Apr 2020, In: PLoS One. 15, 4, 27 p., e0231756.
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Articulating guilt? The influence of guilt presumption on interviewer and interviewee behaviour
Nicole M. Adams-Quackenbush, Professor Aldert Vrij, Robert Horselenberg, Liam P. Satchell & Peter van Koppen, 18 Apr 2020, In: Current Psychology. 13 p.
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Fading lies: applying the verifiability approach after a period of delay
Louise Marie Jupe, Professor Aldert Vrij, Dr Sharon Leal & Galit Nahari, 1 Apr 2020, In: Psychology, Crime & Law. 26, 4, p. 327-342 16 p.
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Proportion of complications in interpreter-absent and interpreter-present interviews
Professor Aldert Vrij & Dr Sharon Leal, 24 Mar 2020, In: Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. 27, p. 155-164 10 p.
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Utility and effectiveness of the context manipulation techniques: police investigators’ perspectives
Katherine Hoogesteyn, Ewout Meijer & Professor Aldert Vrij, 4 Mar 2020, In: Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology.
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Applying the verifiability approach to deception detection in alibi witness situations
Dr Zarah Vernham, Professor Aldert Vrij, Galit Nahari, Dr Sharon Leal, Dr Sam Mann, Liam Satchell & Robin Orthey, 1 Mar 2020, In: Acta Psychologica. 204, 14 p., 103020.
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Detecting smugglers: identifying strategies and behaviours in individuals in possession of illicit objects
Dr Sam Mann, Dr Haneen Deeb, Professor Aldert Vrij, Professor Lorraine Hope & Lavinia Pontigia, 1 Mar 2020, In: Applied Cognitive Psychology. 34, 2, p. 372-386
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Sketching while narrating as a tool to detect deceit
Professor Aldert Vrij, Dr Sam Mann, Dr Sharon Leal, Ronald P. Fisher & Dr Haneen Deeb, 24 Feb 2020, In: Applied Cognitive Psychology.
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Embedding lies into truthful stories does not affect their quality
Brianna L. Verigin, Ewout H. Meijer & Professor Aldert Vrij, 12 Feb 2020, In: Applied Cognitive Psychology. 10 p.
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Analysing openly recorded pre‐interview deliberations to detect deceit in collective interviews
Professor Aldert Vrij, Louise Marie Jupe, Dr Sharon Leal, Dr Zarah Vernham & Galit Nahari, 1 Jan 2020, In: Applied Cognitive Psychology. 34, 1, p. 132-141 10 p.
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Lying about flying: the efficacy of the information protocol and model statement for detecting deceit
Professor Aldert Vrij, Dr Sharon Leal, Dr Haneen Deeb, Stephanie Chan, Majeed Khader, Chai Xiau‐Ting & Jeffery Chin, Jan 2020, In: Applied Cognitive Psychology. 34, 1, p. 241-255
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