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Examining the link between alcohol and deception is great fun: 

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• Giel Beelen doet de test

Bruno´s Bio

2011-present: Associate professor of forensic psychology at the Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam. Honorary research fellow at Ghent University (LipLab) and Maastricht University (Forensic Psychology).    

2005-2011:   Postdoctoral researcher of the Research Foundation -Flanders (FWO) at Ghent University (Belgium).   

2000-2005: Academic Assisting Staff, Department of Psychology, Ghent University (Belgium).

• LipLab Ghent

• Forensic Psychology Maastricht

Key publications on deception and lie detection

Verschuere, B., Spruyt, A., Meijer, E., & Otgaar, H. (2011). The ease of lying. Consciousness & Cognition.

Verschuere, B., Crombez, G., Degrootte, T. & Rosseel, Y. (2009). Detecting concealed information with reaction times: Validity and comparison with the polygraph. Applied Cognitive Psychology.

Verschuere, B., Prati, V., &De Houwer, J. (2009). Cheating the lie detector: Faking in the Autobiographical IAT. Psychological Science, 20, 410-413.

Verschuere, B., Crombez, G.,De Clercq, A., & Koster, E. (2005). Psychopathic traits and autonomic responding to concealed information in a prison sample. Psychophysiology, 42, 239-245.

Verschuere, B., Crombez, G., De Clercq, A., & Koster, E. (2004). Autonomic and behavioral responding to concealed information: Differentiating defensive and orienting responses. Psychophysiology, 41, 461-466.

• NewScientist article on the C&C paper

• The European consortium of Psychological Research On Deception Detection (E-PRODD)

Book: Memory detection

Traditional techniques for detecting deception, such as the 'liedetector 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, whereasnot all liars will. Because of this, the validity of such methods is questionable. As an alternative, a knowledge-based approach known as the 'Concealed Information Test' has been developed which investigates whether theexaminee 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 fi rst 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.

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Key publications on psychopathy

Verschuere, B., Candel, I., Van Reenen, L., & Korebrits, A. (2012). Validity of the modified Child Psychopathy Scale in juvenile justice center residents. Journal of Psychopathology & Behavioral Assessment.

Uzieblo, K., Verschuere, B., Van den Bussche, E., & Crombez, G. (2010). The Validity of Psychopathy Personality Inventory - Revised in a CommunitySample. Assessment, 17, 334-346.

Uzieblo, K., Verschuere, B., & Crombez, G. (2007). The Psychopathic Personality Inventory: Construct Validity of the Two-Factor Structure. Personality & Individual Differences, 43 , 657-667.

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Key publications on Clinical Psychology (anxiety and attention bias)

Van Bockstaele, B., Koster, E. H. W., Verschuere, B., Crombez, G., & De Houwer, J. (2012). Limited Transfer of Threat Bias Following Attentional Retraining . Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry .

Van Bockstaele B., Crombez, G.,  De Houwer, J., & Verschuere, B. (2010). On the Costs and Benefits of Directing Attention towards or away from Threat-Related Stimuli: A Classical Conditioning Experiment. Behavior Research and Therapy, 48, 692-697.

Koster, E. H. W., Crombez, G., Verschuere, B., & De Houwer, J. (2004). Selective attention to threat in the dot probe paradigm: Differentiating vigilance and difficulty to disengage. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 42, 1183-1192.

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