Buller and Burgoon (1996) defined deception as, "a sender's knowingly transmitting messages intended to foster a false belief or conclusion in the reliever". Deception has been studied as far back as Freud (1905), "He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent he chatters with his fingertips, betrayal oozes out of him of every pore". Freud is speaking of the non-verbal cues which can disclose what our mouths try to hide. It is these non-verbal cues which are focused
on heavily in the detection of deception when interrogating suspects. This essay will discuss the methods of detection used within police interrogation of suspects and aim to find the positives and negatives of these techniques with particular reference to psychological research carried out within the field.
In the past century the issue of deception has been greatly debated and researched within the world of psychology. Opinions on non-verbal......

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Title: How Useful Would Psychological Research Into The Detection Of Deception Be In Assisting You With Your Investigations? Are There Limitations To The Research Which Would Put You Off Relying On It?
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