Dr Haneen Deeb
Biography
I hold BA (2005) and MA (2012) degrees in Psychology from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. In 2014, I joined the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Programme in Legal Psychology. I was supervised by Professors Aldert Vrij and Lorraine Hope and Dr. Samantha Mann at the University of Portsmouth and by Professors Pär Anders Granhag and Leif Strömwall at the University of Gothenburg. I completed my PhD in September 2017 and continued working in Prof. Vrij's research lab. I have been working since then on different projects funded by the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) and by the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG).
Research interests
My doctoral thesis project examined various interview techniques that enhance lie detection in forensic contexts. I was specifically interested in interview techniques that elicit differences in statement consistency between lie tellers and truth tellers. I continue to examine novel interview techniques and how they affect the elicitation of verbal cues. I am specifically interested in the effects of sketch-based interviews and of opinion-based interviews on different types of details (e.g., PLATO details, complications).
Research outputs
2024
Omission lies: the effect of omitting little or much information on verbal veracity cues
Deeb, H., Fisher, R. P., Leal, S., Vrij, A.
19 Nov 2024, In: The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context
Honesty repeats itself: comparing manual and automated coding on the veracity cues total details and redundancy
Deeb, H., Dib, G., Hypšová, P., Leal, S., Mann, S., Palena, N., Vrij, A.
21 Oct 2024, In: Applied Psycholinguistics. 45, 5, p. 934-962, 29p.
Veracity judgments based on complications: a training experiment
Burkhardt, J., Deeb, H., Leal, S., Mann, S., Vrij, A.
19 Sep 2024, In: Behavioral Sciences. 14, 9, 15p., 839
Verbal cues in omission lies: The effect of informing sources about the essential part of the event
Deeb, H., Fisher, R. P., Leal, S., Vrij, A.
1 Aug 2024, In: Applied Cognitive Psychology. 38, 4, 12p., e4232
Use of the model statement in determining the veracity of opinions
Deeb, H., Mann, S., Vrij, A.
12 Jul 2024, In: Applied Cognitive Psychology. 38, 4, 12p., e4227
“Tell me about your trip”: Introducing the Enhanced Ghostwriter Lie Detection Tool
Burkhardt, J., Deeb, H., Leal, S., Vernham, Z., Vrij, A.
3 Jun 2024, In: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
To nod or not to nod: how does interviewer nonverbal behavior affect rapport perceptions and recall in truth tellers and lie tellers?
Dabrowna, O., Deeb, H., Leal, S., Mann, S., Vrij, A.
31 Jan 2024, In: Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
Exposing suspects to their sketches in repeated interviews to elicit information and veracity cues
Deeb, H., Giorgianni, D., Hypšová, P., Leal, S., Mann, S., Vrij, A.
1 Jan 2024, In: The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context. 16, 1, p. 1-15
2023
All mouth and trousers? Use of the Devil’s Advocate questioning protocol to determine authenticity of opinions about protester actions
Deeb, H., Leal, S., Mann, S., Vrij, A.
19 Sep 2023, In: Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
Combining the Devil’s Advocate approach and Verifiability Approach to assess veracity in opinion statements
Dabrowna, O., Deeb, H., Fisher, R. P., Leal, S., Vrij, A.
22 Jul 2023, In: The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context. 15, 2, p. 53-61