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Pär Anders Granhag

Pär Anders Granhag

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Psychology

D-Index
67
Citations
14464
World Ranking
2619
National Ranking
22

Overview

Pär Anders Granhag is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a strong focus on social psychology, sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and clinical psychology.

Their work addresses a range of topics, notably:

  • Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Memory processes and influences
  • Psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending
  • Adversarial robustness in machine learning
  • Social and intergroup psychology
  • Psychology of social influence
  • Misinformation and its impacts

Pär Anders Granhag has contributed research to several frequent publication venues, including:

  • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling
  • Legal and Criminological Psychology
  • Psychology Crime and Law
  • Applied Cognitive Psychology
  • International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence

The scientist has coauthored numerous papers with collaborators such as:

  • Timothy J. Luke
  • Aldert Vrij
  • Sharon Leal
  • Erik Mac Giolla
  • Samantha Mann

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Verbal Lie Detection: Its Past, Present and Future," 2022, Brain Sciences
  • "Subjective likelihood and the construal level of future events: A replication study of Wakslak, Trope, Liberman, and Alony (2006)," 2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "The shift-of-strategy (SoS) approach: using evidence strategically to influence suspects' counter-interrogation strategies," 2022, Psychology Crime and Law
  • "What have we learned about cues to deception? A survey of expert opinions," 2023, Psychology Crime and Law
  • "Mapping Details to Elicit Information and Cues to Deceit: The Effects of Map Richness," 2022, The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context

Best Publications

  • Pitfalls and Opportunities in Nonverbal and Verbal Lie Detection

    Aldert Vrij;Pär Anders Granhag;Stephen Porter

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

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

  • Eliciting cues to deception and truth: What matters are the questions asked

    Aldert Vrij;Pär Anders Granhag

  • Guilty and innocent suspects’ strategies during police interrogations

    Maria Hartwig;Pär Anders Granhag;Leif A. Strömwall

  • Outsmarting the Liars: Toward a Cognitive Lie Detection Approach

    Aldert Vrij;Pär Anders Granhag;Samantha Mann;Sharon Leal

  • Outsmarting the Liars: The Benefit of Asking Unanticipated Questions

    Aldert Vrij;Sharon Leal;Pär Anders Granhag;Samantha Mann

  • Motivational sources of confirmation bias in criminal investigations: the need for cognitive closure

    Karl Ask;Pär Anders Granhag

  • 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

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

    Pär Anders Granhag;Maria Hartwig

  • The Detection of Deception in Forensic Contexts

    Pär Anders Granhag;Leif A. Strömwall

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Motivational Bias in Criminal Investigators' Judgments of Witness Reliability

    Karl Ask;Pär Anders Granhag

  • Detecting Deception : Current Challenges and Cognitive Approaches

    Pär Anders Granhag;Aldert Vrij;Bruno Verschuere

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

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

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

    Par Anders Granhag;Maria Hartwig

Frequent Co-Authors

Aldert Vrij
Aldert Vrij University of Portsmouth
Leif A. Strömwall
Leif A. Strömwall University of Gothenburg
Maria Hartwig
Maria Hartwig John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Samantha Mann
Samantha Mann University of Portsmouth
Sharon Leal
Sharon Leal University of Portsmouth
Ronald P. Fisher
Ronald P. Fisher Florida International University
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
Ray Bull
Ray Bull University of Derby
Bruno Verschuere
Bruno Verschuere University of Amsterdam
Elizabeth F. Loftus
Elizabeth F. Loftus University of California, Irvine

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