Denault Vincent, Jupe Louise Marie, Dodier Olivier, Rochat Nicolas
Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
Centre d'études en sciences de la communication non verbale, Montreal, Canada.
Psychiatr Psychol Law. 2017 Jan 9;24(1):102-117. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2017.1260619. eCollection 2017.
For the past 40 years, lie detection has predominantly been studied in the context of police-suspect and investigative interviews. In their paper, Leach et al. (2016) examined whether niqabs or hijabs interfere with the trial judges' ability to detect deception and concluded that veiling enhanced trial judges' ability to make accurate veracity judgments. In this comment, we argue that the conclusions made by Leach et al. are based upon an inaccurate experimental court paradigm and suffer from methodological and analytical issues. It is our opinion that the applicability of their research findings to real-life court proceedings alongside potential changes to court practices and policies based on Leach et al. should be regarded as naïve and misinformed.
在过去的40年里，测谎主要是在警方与嫌疑人的调查性面谈背景下进行研究的。在他们的论文中，利奇等人（2016年）研究了尼卡布或头巾是否会干扰审判法官检测欺骗的能力，并得出结论认为蒙面增强了审判法官做出准确真实性判断的能力。在本评论中，我们认为利奇等人得出的结论基于不准确的实验法庭范式，且存在方法和分析问题。我们认为，将他们的研究结果应用于现实生活中的法庭程序，以及基于利奇等人的研究结果对法庭实践和政策进行潜在改变，应被视为天真和错误的。
