Aldert Vrij is a professor of applied

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in the department of

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at the

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. His main area of expertise is utilizing nonverbal and verbal cues of

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, also called

lie detection Lie detection is an assessment of a verbal statement with the goal to reveal a possible intentional deceit. Lie detection may refer to a cognitive process of detecting deception by evaluating message content as well as non-verbal cues. It also ma ...

. Author of numerous research articles, Vrij has found that human beings can become more accurate judges of truth and deception not by passive observation of a speaker's verbal and nonverbal behavior but by tactically outsmarting liars through use of various techniques.Vrij, A., & Granhag, P.A. (2012). Eliciting cues to deception and truth: What matters are the questions asked. ''Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition'', 1, 110-117. He is editor of the scholarly journal '' Legal and Criminological Psychology'', published by the

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. He serves on the boards of the journals ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

Human Communication Research ''Human Communication Research'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering empirical work in any area of human communication and human symbolic processes. It was established in 1974 and the current editor-in-chief is Yariv Tsfati ( Un ...

''. He serves on the board of governors of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. He is a Programme Director of research on 'Eliciting Information' at the

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. Vrij earned a Ph.D. in 1991 from

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