Comprehensive lie detection trainings mostly show positive effects¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r3 · q3
Currency · newest study 2025 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Most reviewed comprehensive trainings, often for police officers and combining verbal and nonverbal cues with practice, reported positive findings. → Rau 2025

Evidence¶

Rau 2025¶

Rau, M. A., & Premo, A. E. (2025). Systematic Review of Educational Approaches to Misinformation. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-025-10012-8

q3 · i? · review · r3

The review's narrative synthesis of nine comprehensive trainings reports "positive findings, either based on comparisons to controls ... or pretest-to-posttest gains"; a web-based version was as effective as in-person, and only one study found no differences between training and control.

"Most studies reported positive findings, either based on comparisons to controls (Porter et al., 2000; Vrij et al., 2016) or pretest-to-posttest gains (Colwell et al., 2012; Crews et al., 2007; Matsumoto et al., 2014; Porter et al., 2010; Shaw et al., 2011; Vrij et al., 2015)."

Discussion¶

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