RT Article
T1 Police, personality and the ability to deceive
JF International journal of police science & management
VO 22
IS 1
SP 50
OP 61
A1 Semrad, Monica
A2 Scott-Parker, Bridie
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1761118471
AB Effectiveness as an undercover operative or human source (informant) handler relies on the believability of police in fictious roles, yet the use of deception by law enforcement in covert fields of policing and criminal interviews remains relatively underexplored in the literature. Moreover, selection processes for these critical police roles do not currently include a test of deception ability. This study investigates the lie production and truth production ability of 50 Australian police officers-in-training by comparing their results on a game of deception with their personality traits as tested by the HEXACO-PI-R-100 item version, the Short-D3 and the MSCEIT. Results indicate that sex, age, dark triad traits and emotional intelligence have no relationship with either truth or lie production. HEXACO results indicate low social self-esteem was related to high lie production ability. Further research is needed to explore extraversion, social skills, and confidence as they relate to the credibility of a ‘storyteller’.
K1 Lie production
K1 Individual differences
K1 Law Enforcement
K1 Lying
K1 Personality traits
K1 Police
K1 selection tests
K1 Undercover
DO 10.1177/1461355719880568