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Leif A. Strömwall

Leif A. Strömwall

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Psychology

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39
Citations
6428
World Ranking
8564
National Ranking
81

Overview

Leif A. Strömwall is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a notable focus on social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, gender studies, and public health. The scientist's work explores several interrelated topics within these domains.

Strömwall's main research topics include:

  • Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Memory processes and influences
  • Psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, and sexual offending
  • Maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum
  • Attachment and relationship dynamics
  • Maternal and perinatal health interventions
  • Radiology practices and education

Their recent publications illustrate a focus on both forensic and clinical applications of psychology. These include:

  • "Women's experiences of psychological treatment and psychosocial interventions for postpartum depression: a qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis" (2023), published in BMC Women's Health
  • "Effects of cooperation on information disclosure in mock-witness interviews" (2020), published in Legal and Criminological Psychology
  • "Deception detection in repeated interviews: The effects of immediate type of questioning on the delayed accounts" (2020), published in Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling
  • "Facilitating Memory-Based Lie Detection in Immediate and Delayed Interviewing: The Role of Sketch Mnemonic" (2020), published in Psichologija
  • "Mnemonic Techniques and Lie Detection: Accuracy of Truth and Deception Judgments in Repeated Accounts" (2021), published in Psichologija

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Strömwall include Aleksandras Izotovas, Aldert Vrij, Sara Landström, Lorraine Hope, and Samantha Mann.

The scientist's work has been published in various academic venues such as Psichologija, BMC Women's Health, Legal and Criminological Psychology, Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, and Journal of Child Sexual Abuse.

Best Publications

  • Strategic use of evidence during police interviews: when training to detect deception works.

    Maria Hartwig;Pär Anders Granhag;Leif A. Strömwall;Ola Kronkvist

  • Guilty and innocent suspects’ strategies during police interrogations

    Maria Hartwig;Pär Anders Granhag;Leif A. Strömwall

  • How to Detect Deception? Arresting the Beliefs of Police Officers, Prosecutors and Judges

    Leif A. Strömwall;Pär Anders Granhag

  • Detecting deception via strategic disclosure of evidence.

    Maria Hartwig;Pär Anders Granhag;Leif A. Strömwall;Aldert Vrij

  • The Detection of Deception in Forensic Contexts

    Pär Anders Granhag;Leif A. Strömwall

  • To act truthfully: Nonverbal behaviour and strategies during a police interrogation

    Leif A. Strömwall;Maria Hartwig;Pär Anders Granhag

  • Repeated interrogations: verbal and non‐verbal cues to deception

    Pär Anders Granhag;Leif A. Strömwall

  • The Detection of Deception in Forensic Contexts: Practitioners' beliefs about deception

    Leif A. Strömwall;Pär Anders Granhag;Maria Hartwig

  • Police officers' lie detection accuracy: interrogating freely versus observing video

    Maria Hartwig;Pär Anders Granhag;Leif A. Strömwall;Aldert Vrij

  • Repeated Interrogations –Stretching the Deception Detection Paradigm

    Pär Anders Granhag;Leif A. Strömwall

  • Impression and Information Management: On the Strategic Self- Regulation of Innocent and Guilty Suspects

    Maria Hartwig;Par Anders Granhag;Leif A. Stromwall;N. Doering

  • Imprisoned knowledge: Criminals' beliefs about deception

    Pär Anders Granhag;Lars O. Andersson;Leif A. Strömwall;Maria Hartwig

  • Partners in crime: How liars in collusion betray themselves

    Pär Anders Granhag;Leif A Strömwall;Anna‐Carin Jonsson

  • Rape victim and perpetrator blame and the Just World hypothesis: The influence of victim gender and age

    Leif A. Strömwall;Helen Alfredsson;Sara Landström

  • Eliciting cues to deception by tactical disclosure of evidence: The first test of the Evidence Framing Matrix

    Pär Anders Granhag;Leif A. Strömwall;Rebecca M. Willén;Maria Hartwig

  • Granting asylum or not? Migration board personnel's beliefs about deception

    Pär Anders Granhag;Leif A. Strömwall;Maria Hartwig

  • Suspicious minds: Criminals' ability to detect deception

    Maria Hartwig;Pär Anders Granhag;Leif A. Strömwall;Lars O. Andersson

  • Blame attributions and rape: Effects of belief in a just world and relationship level

    Leif A. Strömwall;Helen Alfredsson;Sara Landström

  • Assessing children's statements: the impact of a repeated experience on CBCA and RM ratings

    Leif A. Strömwall;Lina Bengtsson;Lina Leander;Pär Anders Granhag

  • Deception detection based on repeated interrogations

    Pär Anders Granhag;Leif A. Strömwall

Frequent Co-Authors

Pär Anders Granhag
Pär Anders Granhag University of Gothenburg
Maria Hartwig
Maria Hartwig John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Aldert Vrij
Aldert Vrij University of Portsmouth
Samantha Mann
Samantha Mann University of Portsmouth
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
Victoria Talwar
Victoria Talwar McGill University
Ray Bull
Ray Bull University of Derby
Jeffrey T. Hancock
Jeffrey T. Hancock Stanford University
Amina Memon
Amina Memon Royal Holloway University of London
Siegfried L. Sporer
Siegfried L. Sporer University of Giessen

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