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Maria Hartwig is affiliated with John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the United States. Their research spans several fields including psychology and computer science, with a focus on subfields such as social psychology, artificial intelligence, information systems, clinical psychology, and political science and international relations.

The main topics addressed in their work encompass:

  • Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Hate speech and cyberbullying detection
  • Information and cyber security
  • Policing practices and perceptions
  • Psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending
  • Crime patterns and interventions
  • Memory processes and influences

Hartwig has published articles in various academic venues, with notable frequent publications in the following outlets:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Law and Human Behavior
  • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • Legal and Criminological Psychology
  • Torture Journal

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Hartwig include:

  • On the importance of a procedurally fair organizational climate for openness to change in law enforcement, 2020, Law and Human Behavior
  • Deception and lie detection in the courtroom: The effect of defendants wearing medical face masks, 2021, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • The language of high-stakes truths and lies: Linguistic analysis of true and deceptive statements made during sexual homicide interrogations, 2022, Legal and Criminological Psychology
  • The manipulation of minds: reckoning with the legacy of the American post 9/11 torture program, 2022, Torture Journal
  • Faculty Opinions recommendation of Lie-telling for personal gain in children with and without externalizing behavior problems, 2022, Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Laure Brimbal
  • Ben Bradford
  • Jonathan Jackson
  • E. C. S. Joseph
  • Aldert Vrij

Best Publications

  • Why Do Lie-Catchers Fail? A Lens Model Meta-Analysis of Human Lie Judgments.

    Maria Hartwig;Charles F Bond

  • 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

  • Detecting deception via strategic disclosure of evidence.

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

  • A new theoretical perspective on deception detection: On the psychology of instrumental mind-reading

    Pär Anders Granhag;Maria Hartwig

  • Lie Detection from Multiple Cues: A Meta-analysis

    Maria Hartwig;Charles F. Bond

  • INSIGHTFUL OR WISHFUL: Lawyers' Ability to Predict Case Outcomes

    Jane Goodman-Delahunty;Pär Anders Granhag;Maria Hartwig;Elizabeth F. Loftus

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

    Leif A. Strömwall;Maria Hartwig;Pär Anders Granhag

  • Interrogating to detect deception and truth : effects of strategic use of evidence

    Maria Hartwig

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

    Leif A. Strömwall;Pär Anders Granhag;Maria Hartwig

  • Strategic use of evidence during investigative interviews: The state of the science

    Maria Hartwig;Pär Anders Granhag;Timothy Luke

  • Reading Lies: Nonverbal Communication and Deception.

    Aldert Vrij;Maria Hartwig;Pär Anders Granhag

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Police Interrogation from a Social Psychology Perspective

    Maria Hartwig;Pär Anders Granhag;Aldert Vrij

  • Witnesses appearing live versus on video: effects on observers' perception, veracity assessments and memory

    Sara Landström;Pär Anders Granhag;Maria Hartwig

Frequent Co-Authors

Pär Anders Granhag
Pär Anders Granhag University of Gothenburg
Leif A. Strömwall
Leif A. Strömwall University of Gothenburg
Aldert Vrij
Aldert Vrij University of Portsmouth
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
Pekka Santtila
Pekka Santtila New York University Shanghai
Judee K. Burgoon
Judee K. Burgoon University of Arizona
Ray Bull
Ray Bull University of Derby
Samantha Mann
Samantha Mann University of Portsmouth
Jeffrey T. Hancock
Jeffrey T. Hancock Stanford University
N. Kenneth Sandnabba
N. Kenneth Sandnabba Åbo Akademi University

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