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Papers by Kevin Colwell
Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 2009
The recent attention given to false confessions and convictions underscores the need for a valid ... more The recent attention given to false confessions and convictions underscores the need for a valid and applicable system of credibility assessment. The current study demonstrates the effectiveness of assessment criteria indicative of deception (ACID) training in increasing rater's ability to discriminate between honest and deceptive transcripts. ACID generates credibility assessment through analysis of behaviors related to memory and impression-management as
Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, 2002
The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 2011
... Ronald Roesch, Simon Fraser University (Canada). ... Juan Carlos Sierra, University of Granad... more ... Ronald Roesch, Simon Fraser University (Canada). ... Juan Carlos Sierra, University of Granada (Spain). ... Correspondence: Kevin Colwell, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Southern Connecticut State University. ...
Valid screens for feigned cognitive impairment are a fundamental component of any forensic assess... more Valid screens for feigned cognitive impairment are a fundamental component of any forensic assessment. The TOMI is a verbally-administered, two-alternative forced-choice screen for feigned cognitive impairment in competence to stand trial (CST) evaluations.
Purpose. Previous research bas suggested tbat true and invented memories can be distinguished bet... more Purpose. Previous research bas suggested tbat true and invented memories can be distinguished between using the reality monitoring criteria. Two different coding schemes were used to examine the correct classification of reports as truthful or deceptive on the basis of individual reality-monitoring (RM) criteria.
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Content Analysis, Reality Monitoring, and interpersonal deception. Each component has been previo... more Content Analysis, Reality Monitoring, and interpersonal deception. Each component has been previously published. Thirty-eight university undergraduates entered a professor's offi ce and either stole an exam or replaced an exam that had been stolen previously. They were interviewed 1 week later with the Reality Interview, which is deliberately challenging and aims to enhance the detection of deception. Half responded honestly and completely; half distorted their responses to avoid incrimination. Incentives were provided. Honest responses were longer, more detailed, and contained more admissions of potential mistakes. Most importantly, honest respondents benefi ted from attempts to enhance recall, whereas these same attempts caused deceptive respondents to provide shorter, more repetitive statements. This is a promising technique; 33 of 38 cases were classifi ed accurately. Discussion includes characteristics of deception, process of deception during an investigative interview, hypothetical interview strategies to facilitate the detection of deception, strengths and weaknesses of the study, and areas for future research. Copyright
The objective of this study is the development of an applicable comprehensive questioning and sta... more The objective of this study is the development of an applicable comprehensive questioning and statement analysis procedure. One hundred and thirty-six male residents of the Wynne Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice -Institutional Division (TDCJ -ID) witnessed a staged theft, and provided testimony. Interview formats followed semi-standardized scripts derived from Structured Interview, Inferential Interview and Cognitive Interview techniques. Participants were randomly assigned to one of six experimental conditions in a 2(honesty of reporting) Â 3(interview technique) matrix. Results found a 62% classification accuracy for the Structured Interview, 68% for the Cognitive Interview and 82% for the Inferential Interview, when comparisons were made between treatment phases of each interview condition. When responses given to each interview segment were analysed, 83% of the Structured Interview transcripts were correctly identified, as were 91% of the Inferential and 92.9% of the Cognitive Interview statements. The desire to prevaricate while escaping detection produced statements which were systematically different from honest reporting, as seen in the variables of coherence, response length, type-token ratio, and verbal hedges. These results indicate a potential forensic utility for strategies which attempt to detect deception through a combination of qualitative and quantitative statement characteristics, and underscore the need for systematic, question-by-question analysis of eyewitness statements.
Assessment Criteria Indicative of deception (ACID) is a statement analysis technique that combine... more Assessment Criteria Indicative of deception (ACID) is a statement analysis technique that combines careful interviewing designed to facilitate the detection of deception with empirically-derived content criteria related to both the phenomenal and objective nature of deception.. The current study of ACID had three goals. The first goal was to replicate ACID with a population of incarcerated witnesses. The second goal was to study the extension of this procedure by adding coherence and the type-token ratio for dependent measures. The third goal was to investigate the possibility of gender differences in verbal interpersonal deception. In meeting the first and second goals, this study demonstrated honest statements were longer and more detailed than deceptive statements, and that honest statements specifically had more words and more unique details added as a result of the recall enhancement effect of the interview. Honest statements were more coherent and had lower type-token ratios. In meeting the third goal, this study demonstrated that women's statements were more coherent and contained more words than male statements. Deceptive females gave less detail, fewer word, and had higher type-token ratios than deceptive men. Honest women gave more words and more detail than honest men. Importantly, coherence is very dependent upon gender, so that an honest man is more likely to tell an incoherent story than is a deceptive woman. Using gender-specific norms significantly increased the classification accuracy of a discriminant function analysis. Overall, 74 of 83 participants were accurately classified as honest or deceptive using the dependent measures. Future research is necessary to firmly establish the presence and cause of gender differences in verbal deception. © Suckle-Nelson et al.; Licensee Bentham Open.
Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 2015
ABSTRACT There is a need for an applicable system of investigative interviewing and credibility a... more ABSTRACT There is a need for an applicable system of investigative interviewing and credibility assessment that extends science to practice. Experiment 1: Officers assessed the credibility of colleagues in a face-to-face interaction. Fourteen of sixteen officers were wrong in determining whether their colleague was responding honestly to them or lying to them. Experiment 2 compared untrained officers to officers trained in Assessment Criteria Indicative of Deception (ACID) in their ability to assess the credibility of statements regarding real and mock crimes by analyzing either verbatim transcripts or audio recordings. Officers who were trained in ACID performed significantly better after training than before, and significantly better than a group of officers who were never trained in ACID (89% correct versus 53% correct). No differences emerged due to analyzing transcripts versus recordings. The practical aspects of these results are discussed, including success rate, ease of application, and ease of training. The theoretical discussion includes differential recall enhancement and impression management. Finally, limitations and suggestions for future research are presented.
Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 2009
The recent attention given to false confessions and convictions underscores the need for a valid ... more The recent attention given to false confessions and convictions underscores the need for a valid and applicable system of credibility assessment. The current study demonstrates the effectiveness of assessment criteria indicative of deception (ACID) training in increasing rater's ability to discriminate between honest and deceptive transcripts. ACID generates credibility assessment through analysis of behaviors related to memory and impression-management as
Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, 2002
The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 2011
... Ronald Roesch, Simon Fraser University (Canada). ... Juan Carlos Sierra, University of Granad... more ... Ronald Roesch, Simon Fraser University (Canada). ... Juan Carlos Sierra, University of Granada (Spain). ... Correspondence: Kevin Colwell, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Southern Connecticut State University. ...
Valid screens for feigned cognitive impairment are a fundamental component of any forensic assess... more Valid screens for feigned cognitive impairment are a fundamental component of any forensic assessment. The TOMI is a verbally-administered, two-alternative forced-choice screen for feigned cognitive impairment in competence to stand trial (CST) evaluations.
Purpose. Previous research bas suggested tbat true and invented memories can be distinguished bet... more Purpose. Previous research bas suggested tbat true and invented memories can be distinguished between using the reality monitoring criteria. Two different coding schemes were used to examine the correct classification of reports as truthful or deceptive on the basis of individual reality-monitoring (RM) criteria.
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Content Analysis, Reality Monitoring, and interpersonal deception. Each component has been previo... more Content Analysis, Reality Monitoring, and interpersonal deception. Each component has been previously published. Thirty-eight university undergraduates entered a professor's offi ce and either stole an exam or replaced an exam that had been stolen previously. They were interviewed 1 week later with the Reality Interview, which is deliberately challenging and aims to enhance the detection of deception. Half responded honestly and completely; half distorted their responses to avoid incrimination. Incentives were provided. Honest responses were longer, more detailed, and contained more admissions of potential mistakes. Most importantly, honest respondents benefi ted from attempts to enhance recall, whereas these same attempts caused deceptive respondents to provide shorter, more repetitive statements. This is a promising technique; 33 of 38 cases were classifi ed accurately. Discussion includes characteristics of deception, process of deception during an investigative interview, hypothetical interview strategies to facilitate the detection of deception, strengths and weaknesses of the study, and areas for future research. Copyright
The objective of this study is the development of an applicable comprehensive questioning and sta... more The objective of this study is the development of an applicable comprehensive questioning and statement analysis procedure. One hundred and thirty-six male residents of the Wynne Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice -Institutional Division (TDCJ -ID) witnessed a staged theft, and provided testimony. Interview formats followed semi-standardized scripts derived from Structured Interview, Inferential Interview and Cognitive Interview techniques. Participants were randomly assigned to one of six experimental conditions in a 2(honesty of reporting) Â 3(interview technique) matrix. Results found a 62% classification accuracy for the Structured Interview, 68% for the Cognitive Interview and 82% for the Inferential Interview, when comparisons were made between treatment phases of each interview condition. When responses given to each interview segment were analysed, 83% of the Structured Interview transcripts were correctly identified, as were 91% of the Inferential and 92.9% of the Cognitive Interview statements. The desire to prevaricate while escaping detection produced statements which were systematically different from honest reporting, as seen in the variables of coherence, response length, type-token ratio, and verbal hedges. These results indicate a potential forensic utility for strategies which attempt to detect deception through a combination of qualitative and quantitative statement characteristics, and underscore the need for systematic, question-by-question analysis of eyewitness statements.
Assessment Criteria Indicative of deception (ACID) is a statement analysis technique that combine... more Assessment Criteria Indicative of deception (ACID) is a statement analysis technique that combines careful interviewing designed to facilitate the detection of deception with empirically-derived content criteria related to both the phenomenal and objective nature of deception.. The current study of ACID had three goals. The first goal was to replicate ACID with a population of incarcerated witnesses. The second goal was to study the extension of this procedure by adding coherence and the type-token ratio for dependent measures. The third goal was to investigate the possibility of gender differences in verbal interpersonal deception. In meeting the first and second goals, this study demonstrated honest statements were longer and more detailed than deceptive statements, and that honest statements specifically had more words and more unique details added as a result of the recall enhancement effect of the interview. Honest statements were more coherent and had lower type-token ratios. In meeting the third goal, this study demonstrated that women's statements were more coherent and contained more words than male statements. Deceptive females gave less detail, fewer word, and had higher type-token ratios than deceptive men. Honest women gave more words and more detail than honest men. Importantly, coherence is very dependent upon gender, so that an honest man is more likely to tell an incoherent story than is a deceptive woman. Using gender-specific norms significantly increased the classification accuracy of a discriminant function analysis. Overall, 74 of 83 participants were accurately classified as honest or deceptive using the dependent measures. Future research is necessary to firmly establish the presence and cause of gender differences in verbal deception. © Suckle-Nelson et al.; Licensee Bentham Open.
Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 2015
ABSTRACT There is a need for an applicable system of investigative interviewing and credibility a... more ABSTRACT There is a need for an applicable system of investigative interviewing and credibility assessment that extends science to practice. Experiment 1: Officers assessed the credibility of colleagues in a face-to-face interaction. Fourteen of sixteen officers were wrong in determining whether their colleague was responding honestly to them or lying to them. Experiment 2 compared untrained officers to officers trained in Assessment Criteria Indicative of Deception (ACID) in their ability to assess the credibility of statements regarding real and mock crimes by analyzing either verbatim transcripts or audio recordings. Officers who were trained in ACID performed significantly better after training than before, and significantly better than a group of officers who were never trained in ACID (89% correct versus 53% correct). No differences emerged due to analyzing transcripts versus recordings. The practical aspects of these results are discussed, including success rate, ease of application, and ease of training. The theoretical discussion includes differential recall enhancement and impression management. Finally, limitations and suggestions for future research are presented.