Jaume Masip's research focuses on the verbal and nonverbal detection of deception. Among several other issues, he has explored:

(1) Police officers’ lie-detection accuracy and biases, as well as the strategies officers use when judging veracity
(2) Beliefs about the cues to deception
(3) Judgmental biases in judging veracity caused by deception-detection training
(4) The impact of facial appearance on truthfulness attributions
(5) How the time at which observers make their decision influences their veracity judgments
(6) Deception detection in written and transcribed accounts
(7) The usefulness of the LIWC program to detect deception
(8) The Behavior Analysis Interview (BAI)
(9) Liars’ strategies to be convincing

Jaume Masip is teaching social psychology and eyewitness psychology at the University of Salamanca (Spain).

Primary Interests:

Applied Social Psychology
Communication, Language
Law and Public Policy
Nonverbal Behavior
Person Perception

Applied Social Psychology
Communication, Language
Law and Public Policy

Nonverbal Behavior
Person Perception

Books:

Garrido, E., Masip, J., & Herrero, C. (2009). Autoeficacia y delincuencia [Self-efficacy and delinquency]. Madrid, Spain: Dykinson.
Garrido, E., Masip, J., & Herrero, C. (Eds.), (2006). Psicología jurídica [Psychology and law]. Madrid, Spain: Pearson/Prentice Hall.

Journal Articles:

Alonso, H., Masip, J., Garrido, E., & Herrero, C. (2009). El entrenamiento de los policías para detectar mentiras [Police officers’ training to detect deception]. Estudios Penales y Criminológicos, 29, 7-60.
Garrido, E., Herrero, C., & Masip, J. (2004). Psicología jurídica y sentido común: Construcción social [Legal psychology and common sense: A social construction]. Revista de Psicología General y Aplicada, 57, 395-406.
Garrido, E., & Masip, J. (1999). How good are police officers at spotting lies? Forensic Update, 58, 14-21.
Garrido, E., Masip, J., & Herrero, C. (2004). Police officers’ credibility judgments: Accuracy and estimated ability. International Journal of Psychology, 39(4), 254-275.
Masip, J. (2005). ¿Se pilla antes a un mentiroso que a un cojo? Sabiduría popular frente a conocimiento científico sobre la detección no-verbal del engaño [Is the liar caught sooner than the cripple? Popular wisdom versus scientific knowledge on the non-verbal detection of deception]. Papeles del Psicólogo, 26, 78-91.
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(5), 1046-1066.
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.
Masip, J., Barba, A., & Herrero, C. (2012). Behaviour Analysis Interview and common sense. A study with novice and experienced officers. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 19, 21-34.
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.
Masip, J., Garrido, E., & Herrero, C. (2010). Regression toward the mean or heuristic processing in detecting deception? Reply to Elaad. Psychological Reports, 107, 587-592.
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.
Masip, J., Garrido, E., & Herrero, C. (2006). Observers’ decision moment in deception detection experiments: Its impact on judgment, accuracy, and confidence. International Journal of Psychology, 41, 309-319.
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(4), 276-289.
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(3), 269-311.
Masip, J., Garrido, E., Herrero, C., Ullán, A. M., & Conde, J. (2012). Teaching students about facial composites using the FACES software. Teaching of Psychology, 39, 137-141.
Masip, J., Herrero, C., Garrido, E., & Barba, A. (2011). Is the Behaviour Analysis Interview just common sense? Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25, 593-604.
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(1), 99-121.

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.

Courses Taught:

Eyewitness Psychology
Social Psychology

Eyewitness Psychology

Social Psychology

Jaume Masip
Facultad de Psicología
University of Salamanca
Avda. de la Merced, 109-131
37005 Salamanca
Spain

Phone: Int+34 +923 294610
Fax: Int+34 +923 294604