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Sharon Leal is affiliated with the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans psychology, neuroscience, and social sciences, with a total of 60 publications in psychology, 24 in neuroscience, and 22 in social sciences. Subfields within these areas include social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, and clinical psychology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, with an emphasis on deception detection and forensic psychology. Other key topics include memory processes and influences, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending, misinformation and its impacts, adversarial robustness in machine learning, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, and social and intergroup psychology.

Their frequent collaborators include Aldert Vrij, Haneen Deeb, Ronald P. Fisher, Samantha Mann, and Jennifer Burkhardt. The collaborative nature of their work is evident from repeated partnerships with these researchers across numerous publications.

Sharon Leal has contributed to a variety of publication venues, with the most publications appearing in The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context. Other common venues are Applied Cognitive Psychology, Acta Psychologica, Psychiatry Psychology and Law, and Legal and Criminological Psychology.

Selected recent papers authored by Sharon Leal include:

  • The Relationship between Complications, Common Knowledge Details and Self-handicapping Strategies and Veracity: A Meta-analysis, 2021, The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context
  • How researchers can make verbal lie detection more attractive for practitioners, 2022, Psychiatry Psychology and Law
  • Combining Verbal Veracity Assessment Techniques to Distinguish Truth Tellers from Lie Tellers, 2020, The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context
  • Verbal Lie Detection: Its Past, Present and Future, 2022, Brain Sciences
  • Plausibility: A Verbal Cue to Veracity worth Examining?, 2020, The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Detecting deception by manipulating cognitive load

    Aldert Vrij;Ronald Fisher;Samantha Mann;Sharon Leal

  • A cognitive load approach to lie detection

    Aldert Vrij;Ronald Fisher;Samantha Mann;Sharon Leal

  • You cannot hide your telephone lies: Providing a model statement as an aid to detect deception in insurance telephone calls

    Sharon Leal;Aldert Vrij;Lara Warmelink;Zarah Vernham

  • ‘Look into my eyes’: can an instruction to maintain eye contact facilitate lie detection?

    Aldert Vrij;Samantha Mann;Sharon Leal;Ronald Fisher

  • Blinking During and After Lying

    Sharon Leal;Aldert Vrij

  • Imposing cognitive load to elicit cues to deceit: inducing the reverse order technique naturally

    Aldert Vrij;Sharon Leal;Samantha Mann;Ronald Fisher

  • Thermal imaging as a lie detection tool at airports.

    Lara Warmelink;Aldert Vrij;Samantha Mann;Sharon Leal

  • Windows to the Soul? Deliberate Eye Contact as a Cue to Deceit

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

  • A comparison between lying about intentions and past activities: verbal cues and detection accuracy

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

  • Using sketch drawing to induce inconsistency in liars

    Drew Leins;Ronald P. Fisher;Aldert Vrij;Sharon Leal

  • Drawings as an innovative and successful lie detection tool

    Aldert Vrij;Sharon Leal;Samantha Mann;Lara Warmelink

  • Using the Model Statement to Elicit Information and Cues to Deceit from Native Speakers, Non‐native Speakers and Those Talking Through an Interpreter

    Sarah Ewens;Aldert Vrij;Sharon Leal;Samantha Mann

  • Translating theory into practice: Evaluating a cognitive lie detection training workshop

    Aldert Vrij;Sharon Leal;Samantha Mann;Zarah Vernham

  • Lying about flying: the first experiment to detect false intent

    Aldert Vrij;Pär A. Granhag;Samantha Mann;Sharon Leal

  • Using the model statement to elicit information and cues to deceit in interpreter-based interviews

    Aldert Vrij;Sharon Leal;Samantha Mann;Gary Dalton

  • Two heads are better than one? how to effectively use two interviewers to elicit cues to deception

    Samantha Mann;Aldert Vrij;Dominic J. Shaw;Sharon Leal

  • Getting into the minds of pairs of liars and truth tellers: An examination of their strategies

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

  • Collective interviewing of suspects

    Aldert Vrij;Shyma Jundi;Lorraine Hope;Jackie Hillman

Frequent Co-Authors

Aldert Vrij
Aldert Vrij University of Portsmouth
Samantha Mann
Samantha Mann University of Portsmouth
Ronald P. Fisher
Ronald P. Fisher Florida International University
Pär Anders Granhag
Pär Anders Granhag University of Gothenburg
Ray Bull
Ray Bull University of Derby
Harald Merckelbach
Harald Merckelbach Maastricht University
Gershon Ben-Shakhar
Gershon Ben-Shakhar Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Geert Crombez
Geert Crombez Ghent University
Bruno Verschuere
Bruno Verschuere University of Amsterdam
Matthias Gamer
Matthias Gamer University of Würzburg

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