Jaume Masip, Ph.D.
Jaume Masip's research focuses on the verbal and nonverbal detection of deception. Among several other issues, he has explored:
- Police officers’ lie-detection accuracy and biases, as well as the strategies officers use when judging veracity.
- Beliefs about deception cues.
- Judgmental biases in judging veracity caused by deception-detection training.
- The impact of facial appearance on truthfulness attributions.
- Linguistic (e.g., using LIWC) and verbal (e.g., CBCA, RM, ARJS) cues to deception.
- Non-behavioral indicators of deception.
- The Behavior Analysis Interview (BAI).
- Liars’ strategies to be convincing.
- Interviewing to detect deception.
- Cognitive models of deception, and theroretical perspectives on lie detection.
- How people detect lies in everyday life.
Jaume Masip is teaching "Psychology and Law" and "Criminal Psychology" at the University of Salamanca (Spain).
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Communication, Language
- Law and Public Policy
- Nonverbal Behavior
- Person Perception
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Social Cognition
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Journal Articles:
- Blandón-Gitlin, I., Fenn, E., Masip, J., & Yoo, A. (2014). Cognitive-load approaches to detect deception: Searching for cognitive mechanisms. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18, 441-444. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.05.004
- Bond, C. F., Howard, A. R., Hutchison, J. L., & Masip, J. (2013). Overlooking the obvious: Incentives to lie. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 35, 212-221. doi: 10.1080/01973533.2013.764302
- Denault, V., Plusquellec, P., Jupe, L. M., St-Yves, M., Dunbar, N. E., Hartwig, M., et al. (2020). The analysis of nonverbal communication: The dangers of pseudoscience in security and justice contexts. Anuario de Psicología Jurídica, 30, 1-12. doi:10.5093/apj2019a9
- Garrido, E., Masip, J., & Herrero, C. (2004). Police officers’ credibility judgments: Accuracy and estimated ability. International Journal of Psychology, 39, 254-275. doi: 10.1080/00207590344000411
- Hauch, V., Blandón-Gitlin, I., Masip, J., & Sporer, S. L. (2015). Are computers effective lie detectors? A meta-analysis of linguistic cues to deception. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 19, 307-342. doi: 10.1177/1088868314556539
- Hauch, V., Sporer, S. L., Masip, J., & Blandón-Gitlin, I. (2017). Can credibility criteria be assessed reliably? A meta-analysis of Criteria-based Content Analysis. Psychological Assessment, 29, 819-834. doi:10.1037/pas0000426
- Masip, J. (2017). Deception detection: State of the art and future prospects. Psicothema, 29, 149-159. doi:10.7334/psicothema2017.34
- Masip, J., Alonso, H., Garrido, E., & Antón, C. (2005). Generalized Communicative Suspicion (GCS) among police officers: Accounting for the investigator bias effect. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 35, 1046-1066. doi: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2005.tb02159.x
- Masip, J., Alonso, H., Garrido, E., & Herrero, C. (2009) Training to detect what? The biasing effects of training on veracity judgments. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 1282-1269. doi: 10.1002/acp.1535
- Masip, J., Alonso, H., Herrero, C., & Garrido, E. (2016). Experienced and novice officers’ Generalized Communication Suspicion and veracity judgments. Law and Human Behavior, 40, 169-181. doi:10.1037/lhb0000169
- Masip, J., Bethencourt, M., Lucas, G., Sánchez-San Segundo, M., & Herrero, C. (2012). Deception detection from written accounts. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 53, 103-111. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2011.00931.x
- Masip, J., Blandón-Gitlin, I., Martínez, C., Herrero, C., & Ibabe, I. (2016). Strategic interviewing to detect deception: Cues to deception across repeated interviews. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1702. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01702
- Masip, J., Blandón-Gitlin, I., de la Riva, C., & Herrero, C. (2016). An empirical test of the decision to lie component of the Activation-Decision-Construction-Action Theory (ADCAT). Acta Psychologica, 169, 45-55. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.05.004
- Masip, J., & Garrido, E. (2001). Is there a kernel of truth in judgements of deceptiveness? Anales de Psicología, 17, 101-120.
- Masip, J., Garrido, E., & Herrero, C. (2009). Heuristic versus systematic processing of information in detecting deception: Questioning the truth bias. Psychological Reports, 105, 11-36. doi: 10.2466/pr0.105.1.11-36
- Masip, J., Garrido, E., & Herrero, C. (2004). Facial appearance and impressions of credibility: The effects of facial babyishness and age on person perception. International Journal of Psychology, 39, 276-289. doi: 10.1080/00207590444000014
- Masip, J., Garrido, E., & Herrero, C. (2003). Facial appearance and judgments of credibility: The effects of facial babyishness and age on statement credibility. Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs, 129, 269-311.
- Masip, J., & Herrero, C. (2017). Examining police officers’ response bias in judging veracity. Psicothema, 29, 490-495. doi:10.7334/psicothema2016.357
- Masip, J., & Herrero, C. (2015). Police detection of deception: Beliefs about behavioral cues to deception are strong even though contextual evidence is more useful. Journal of Communication, 65, 125-145. doi:10.1111/jcom.12135
- Masip, J., & Herrero, C. (2013). “What would you say if you were guilty?” Suspects’ strategies during a hypothetical Behavior Analysis Interview concerning a serious crime. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 27, 60-70. doi: 10.1002/acp.2872
- Masip, J., Herrero, C., Garrido, E., & Barba, A. (2011). Is the Behaviour Analysis Interview just common sense? Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25, 593-604. doi:10.1002/acp.1728
- Masip, J., Martínez, C., Blandón-Gitlin, I., Sánchez, N., Herrero, C., & Ibabe, I. (2018). Learning to detect deception from evasive answers and inconsistencies across repeated interviews: A study with lay respondents and police officers. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 2207. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02207
- Masip, J., & Sánchez, N. (2019). How people really suspect lies: A re examination of Novotny et al.’s (2018) data. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 43, 481-492. doi:0.1007/s10919-019-00309-y
- Masip, J., Sporer, S. L., Garrido, E., & Herrero, C. (2005). The detection of deception with the Reality Monitoring approach: A review of the empirical evidence. Psychology, Crime & Law, 11, 99-121. doi: 10.1080/10683160410001726356
- Nahari, G., Ashkenazi, T., Fisher, R. P., Granhag, P.-A., Hershkowitz, I., Masip, J., Meijer, E. H., Nisin, Z., Sarid, N., Taylor, P. J., Verschuere, B., & Vrij, A. (2019). “Language of Lies”: Urgent issues and prospects in verbal lie detection research. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 24, 1-23. doi:10.1111/lcrp.1214
- Sambrano, D., Masip, J., Blandón-Gitlin, I. (2021). How emotions affect judgment and decision making in an interrogation scenario. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 26, 62-82. doi:10.1111/lcrp.12181
- Sánchez, N., & Masip, J. (2020). Do people detect deception the way they think they do? Replication and extensions. Psicothema, 32, 329-336. doi:10.7334/psicothema2019.405
- Sporer, S. L., Manzanero, A. L., & Masip, J. (2021). Optimizing CBCA and RM research: Recommendations for analyzing and reporting data on content cues to deception. Psychology, Crime, & Law, 27, 1-39. doi:10.1080/1068316X.2020.1757097
- Street, C. N. H., & Masip, J. (2015). The source of the truth bias: Heuristic processing? Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 56, 254-263. doi:10.1111/sjop.12204
Other Publications:
- Masip, J., Garrido, E., Herrero, C., Antón, C., & Alonso, H. (2006). Officers as lie detectors. Guilty before charged. In D. Chadee & J. Young (Eds.), Current themes in social psychology (pp. 187-205). Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press.
- Street, C. N. H., Masip, J., & Kenny, M. (2019). Understanding lie detection biases with the Adaptive Lie Detector Theory (ALIED): A boundedly rational approach. In T. Docan-Morgan (Ed.), Palgrave handbook of deceptive communication (pp. 227-247). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96334-1_12
Courses Taught:
- Psychology and Law
Jaume Masip, Ph.D.
Facultad de Psicología
University of Salamanca
Avda. de la Merced, 109-131
37005 Salamanca
Spain
- Phone: Int + 34 677 555496
