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Overview

Ray Bull is affiliated with the University of Derby in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, with significant contributions to the subfields of social psychology, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, and political science and international relations.

Their work extensively addresses topics within deception detection and forensic psychology, memory processes and influences, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending, policing practices and perceptions, interpreting and communication in healthcare, child abuse and trauma, and sexual assault and victimization studies.

Ray Bull has published numerous articles in well-recognized venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
  • International Journal of Police Science & Management
  • Psychology Crime and Law
  • International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice
  • Psychiatry Psychology and Law

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Contextual factors predict self-reported confession decision-making: A field study of suspects' actual police interrogation experiences." (2021, Law and Human Behavior)
  • "White paper on forensic child interviewing: research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law" (2024, Psychology Crime and Law)
  • "Improving Professional Observers' Veracity Judgements by Tactical Interviewing" (2020, Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology)
  • "Investigative empathy: a strength scale of empathy based on European police perspectives" (2020, Psychiatry Psychology and Law)
  • "Underpinning prosociality: Age related performance in theory of mind, empathic understanding, and moral reasoning" (2020, Cognitive Development)

Ray Bull has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Rebecca Milne
  • Hayley M. D. Cleary
  • Genevieve F. Waterhouse
  • Bianca Baker-Eck
  • Ching-Yu Huang

Best Publications

  • Investigative Interviewing: Psychology and Practice

    Becky Milne;Ray Bull

  • Increasing Cognitive Load to Facilitate Lie Detection: The Benefit of Recalling an Event in Reverse Order

    Aldert Vrij;Samantha A. Mann;Ronald P. Fisher;Sharon Leal

  • Detecting Deceit via Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior

    Aldert Vrij;Katherine Edward;Kim P. Roberts;Ray Bull

  • The cognitive interview: A meta-analysis

    Günter Köhnken;Rebecca Milne;Amina Memon;Ray Bull

  • Lay persons’ and police officers’ beliefs regarding deceptive behaviour

    Lucy Akehurst;Günter Köhnken;Aldert Vrij;Ray Bull

  • The Social Psychology of Facial Appearance

    Ray Bull;Nichola Rumsey

  • Detecting true lies: police officers' ability to detect suspects' lies.

    Samantha Mann;Aldert Vrij;Ray Bull

  • Psychotherapy and the Recovery of Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse: U.S. and British Practitioners' Opinions, Practices, and Experiences

    Debra A. Poole;D. Stephen Lindsay;Amina Memon;Ray Bull

  • Children's everyday deception and performance on false-belief tasks

    Paul E. Newton;Vasudevi Reddy;Ray Bull

  • Exposure duration: effects on eyewitness accuracy and confidence

    Amina Memon;Lorraine Hope;Ray Bull

  • Suspects, lies, and videotape: an analysis of authentic high-stake liars.

    Samantha Mann;Aldert Vrij;Ray Bull

  • Detecting Deceit Via Analyses of Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior in Children and Adults

    Aldert Vrij;Lucy Akehurst;Stavroula Soukara;Ray Bull

  • Examining Rapport in Investigative Interviews with Suspects: Does its Building and Maintenance Work?

    Dave Walsh;Ray Bull

  • The effect of a five-month delay on children's and adults' eyewitness memory.

    Rhona Flin;Julian Boon;Anne Knox;Ray Bull

  • Insight into behavior displayed during deception

    Aldert Vrij;Gun R. Semin;Ray Bull

  • Isolating the effects of the Cognitive Interview techniques

    Amina Memon;Linsey Wark;Ray Bull;Guenter Koehnken

  • What really happens in police interviews of suspects? Tactics and confessions

    S. Soukara;R. Bull;Aldert Vrij;Mark Turner

  • Comparing Rape Victim and Perpetrator Blaming in a Police Officer Sample Differences Between Police Officers With and Without Special Training

    Emma Sleath;Ray Bull

  • The investigative interviewing of children and other vulnerable witnesses: Psychological research and working/professional practice

    Ray Bull

  • Back to basics: a componential analysis of the original cognitive interview mnemonics with three age groups

    Rebecca Milne;Ray Bull

Frequent Co-Authors

Aldert Vrij
Aldert Vrij University of Portsmouth
Amina Memon
Amina Memon Royal Holloway University of London
Nichola Rumsey
Nichola Rumsey University of the West of England
Samantha Mann
Samantha Mann University of Portsmouth
Graham Davies
Graham Davies University of Leicester
Clive R. Hollin
Clive R. Hollin University of Leicester
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
Lorraine Sheridan
Lorraine Sheridan Curtin University
Pär Anders Granhag
Pär Anders Granhag University of Gothenburg
Ronald P. Fisher
Ronald P. Fisher Florida International University

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