Biography

I graduated from the 91¸£ÀûÍø in 1997 with a BSc (Hons) Psychology degree, which ended in the final year project ‘Deceiving and Detecting Deceit when the Stakes are High: The Behaviour of a Murderer During Police Interviews Analysed’. Continuing my interest in deceptive behaviour, I then commenced research for a PhD (funded by the ESRC), which involved analysing the behaviour of high-stake liars and truth-tellers, specifically videos of suspects in their police interviews. I then showed clips of these suspects to police officers to see if they could tell when they were lying or truth-telling. This research culminated in her thesis ‘Suspects, lies and videotape: An investigation into telling and detecting lies in police/suspect interviews’ in 2001.

After a couple of years in research posts outside academia, I returned to 91¸£ÀûÍø in 2003 to embark on a 3-year ESRC project with Professor Vrij on enhancing deception detection through increasing cognitive load in interview situations. I have just commenced another project with Vrij designed to facilitate lie detection in interview situations.

Research interests

My current research interests include:Nonverbal cues to deception;  People’s perceptions of deceptive behaviour;  Professional lie detectors’ ability to detect deceit;  Enhancing interview situations in order to facilitate deception detection;  Speech related cues to deception (Reality Monitoring).

Research outputs

2024

Deeb, H., Vrij, A., Palena, N., Hypšová, P., Dib, G., Leal, S., Mann, S.

21 Oct 2024, In: Applied Psycholinguistics. 45, 5, p. 934-962, 29p.

Research output: Article

Deeb, H., Vrij, A., Burkhardt, J., Leal, S., Mann, S.

19 Sep 2024, In: Behavioral Sciences. 14, 9, 15p., 839

Research output: Article

Mann, S., Vrij, A., Deeb, H., Leal, S.

1 Sep 2024, In: Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. 31, 5, p. 909-931

Research output: Article

Mann, S., Vrij, A., Deeb, H.

12 Jul 2024, In: Applied Cognitive Psychology. 38, 4, 12p., e4227

Research output: Article

Deeb, H., Leal, S., Vrij, A., Mann, S., Dabrowna, O.

1 Mar 2024, In: Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 48

Research output: Article

Deeb, H., Vrij, A., Leal, S., Giorgianni, D., Hypšová, P., Mann, S.

1 Jan 2024, In: The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context. 16, 1, p. 1-15

Research output: Article

2022

Deeb, H., Vrij, A., Leal, S., Fallon, M., Mann, S., Luther, K., Granhag, P. A.

21 Sep 2022, In: Applied Cognitive Psychology. 36, 5, p. 1049-1059, 11p.

Research output: Article

Deeb, H., Vrij, A., Leal, S., Mann, S., Burkhardt, J.

2 Sep 2022, In: Brain Sciences. 12, 9, 16p., 1180

Research output: Article

Harvey, A., Vrij, A., Hope, L., Mann, S.

1 Sep 2022, In: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 11, 3, p. 437-444

Research output: Article

Mann, S., Vrij, A., Deeb, H., Leal, S.

1 Aug 2022, In: Applied Cognitive Psychology. 36, 4, p. 905-918, 14p.

Research output: Article