Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences

Prof. Galit Nahari

דוא"ל
galit.nahari@biu.ac.il
    קורות חיים

    Prof. Galit Nahari is the dean of the Social Sciences Faculty at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and the editor of Legal and Criminological Psychology. Her main research interests are legal and investigative decision-making, applied memory, detection of deception and investigative interviewing. As part of it, she develops interrogation and lie-detection methods (prime example is the Verifiability Approach), examines their validity and suitability in different contexts, and their vulnerability to judgmental biases. A major part of her research further focuses on the cognitive processes underlies credibility and veracity assessments, as well as on individual differences which impact these assessments.

    מחקר

    1. Detection of deception and witnesses credibility assessments

    2. Legal and investigative decision-making

    3. Forensic judgmental biases

    4. Interpersonal Reality Monitoring

    5. Detection of concealed information. 

    6. Applied memory

    7. Criminal psychology and liar's strategies

    8. Verifiability approach
    פרסומים

    Publications

    Nisin, Z., Nahari, G, & Goldsmith, M. (2024). Lies divorced from context: evidence for Context Embedded Perception (CEP) as a feasible measure for deception detection. Psychology, Crime & Law. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2022.2078825

    Nisin, Z., & Nahari, G. (2023). Applied cognitive science in Israel: From research to operational manuals. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 12, 376 – 379.

    Nahari G. (2023). Meta-Research Perspectives on Verbal Lie Detection. Brain Sciences, 13, 392 - 399.

    Chandler, D., Vrij, A., Vernham, Z., Nahari, G., Fisher, R.P., Leal, S., & Mather, R.A.C. (2023). ‘Drawing to conclusion’: The effect of sketching recall methods to enhance information-gathering and cues to deceit." Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37, 1094 - 1112.

    Rozmann, N., & Nahari, G. (2022).  Credibility assessment in context: The influence of intergroup bias and the context of the crime. Psychology, Crime & Law, 28, 454 - 469.

    Rozmann, N., & Nahari, G. (2022).  Credibility assessment in context: The influence of intergroup bias and the context of the crime. Psychology, Crime & Law, 28, 454 - 469.

    Bogaard, G., Meijer, E. H., Vrij, A. & Nahari, G. (2022) Detecting deception using comparable truth baselines. Psychology, Crime & Law, DOI: 10.1080/1068316X.2022.2030334 

    Bogaard, G., Nußbaum, M., Schlaudt, L.S., Meijer, E.H., Nahari, G., & Vrij, A. (2022). A comparable truth baseline improves truth/lie detection. Applied Cognitive Psychology.

    Vrij, A.; Leal, S., Mann, M., Vernham, Z., Dalton, G., Serok-Jeppa, O., Rozmann, N., Nahari, G., & Fisher, R.P. (2021). Please tell me all you remember”: A comparison between British’ and Arab’ interviewees’ free narrative performance and its consequences for lie detection. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 28, 546 - 559.

    Palena, N., Caso, L., Vrij, A. & Nahari, G. (2021). The Verifiability Approach: A meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10, 155 – 166.

    Rozmann, N. & Nahari, G. (2021): Credibility assessments of alibi accounts: the role of cultural intergroup bias. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. DOI: 10.1080/13218719.2021.1938274

    Nahari, G. & Nisin, Z. (accepted). The Verifiability Approach for distinguishing lies from truths. In Y. Idisis, L. Cohen-Raz, & P. Silfen. Clinical Criminology in Israel: Theory, Research and Clinic.

    Vrij, M.L., Jupe, L.M, Leal, S. Vernham, Z., & Nahari, G. (2020). Analyzing openly recorded pre-interview deliberations to detect deceit in collective interviews, Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34, 132 - 141.

    Vernham, Z., Vrij, A., & Nahari, G., Leal, S., Mann, S., & Satchell, L., Orthey, R. (2020). Applying the verifiability approach to deception detection in alibi witness situations. Acta Psychologica, 204, 1 – 14.

    Rozmann, N. & Nahari, G. (2020). The influence of suspect ethnicity and evidence direction on alibi credibility assessment. Applied Cognitive Psychology; 36, 1516 – 1521. 

    Vrij, A., Nahari, G. & Fisher, R.P. (2020) Cognitive credibility assessment and the verifiability approach: Two lie detection tools to elicit or enhance verbal cues to deceit. In: R. Horselenberg, V. Van Koppen & J. de Keijser (Eds.) Bakens in de rechtspsychologe: Liber amicorum voor Peter van Koppen [Beacons in legal psychology: Liber amicorum for Peter van Koppen] (pp. 477-490). The Hague, The Netherlands: Boom criminologie.

    Nahari, G., & Nisin, Z. (2019). Digging further into the Speech of Liars: Future Research Prospects in Verbal Lie Detection, Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10:56.   

    *https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00056/full

    Nahari, G., Ashkenazi, T., Fisher, R.P., Granhag, P.A., Hershkovitz, I., Masip, J., Meijer, E., 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

    *Free access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lcrp.12148

    Nahari, G. & Vrij, A. (2019). The Verifiability Approach: Advances, challenges and future prospects. In R. Bull, & I. Blandón-Gitlin (Eds.). Handbook of legal and investigative psychology (pp. 212-223). London: Routledge

    Jupe, L.M., Vrij, A., Leal,S., & Nahari, G. (2019).  Fading lies: Applying the verifiability approach after a period of delay. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 26, 1 - 16.

    Leal, S., Vrij, A., Vernham, Z., Dalton, G., Jupe, L.M., Nahari, G., Rozmann, N. (2019). Using the model statement to elicit verbal differences between truth tellers and liars amongst Arab interviewees: A partial replication of Leal, Vrij, Deeb and Jupe (2018), Applied Cognitive Psychology, 33, 1008-1017.

    Nahari, G. (2019). Verifiability approach: Applications in different judgmental settings. In T. Docan-Morgan (Ed.). The Handbook of Deceptive Communication (pp. 213 – 225). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 

    Vrij, A. & Nahari, G. (2019). The Verifiability Approach In J. J. Dickinson, N. Schreiber Compo, R. Carol, B. L. Schwartz, & M. McCauley (eds.) Evidence-Based Investigative Interviewing (pp. 116- 133). New York: Routledge. 

    Nahari, G. (2018). Reality Monitoring in the Forensic Context: Digging Deeper into the Speech of Liars. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 7, 432-440.

    Harvey, A. C., Vrij, A., Sarikas, G., Leal, S., Jupe, L., & Nahari, G. (2018). Extendingth Verifiability Approach framework: The effect of initial questioning. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 32, 787-804

    Leal, S., Vrij, A., Vernham, Z., Dalton, G., Jupe, L.M., Harvey, A., & Nahari, G. (2018). Cross-cultural verbal deception. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 23, 192-213

    Jupe, L. M., Leal, S; Vrij, A., & Nahari, G. (2018). Are you for real? The use of unexpected process questions within the detection of identity deception. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 32, 622-634.

    McCarthy, R. J., Skowronski, J. J., Verschuere, B., Meijer, E. H., Jim, A., Hoogesteyn, K., …Nahari,G.... & Barbosa, F. (2018). Registered Replication Report on Srull and Wyer (1979). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1, 321 - 336. ‏

    Verschuere, B., Meijer, E. H., Jim, A., Hoogesteyn, K., Orthey, R., McCarthy, R. J., ….Nahari, G... & Barbosa, F. (2018). Registered Replication Report on Mazar, Amir, and Ariely (2008). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1, 299-317. 

    Nahari, G. (2018). The applicability of the verifiability approach to the Real world. In J. P. Rosenfeld (Ed.), Detecting Concealed Information and Deception: Recent Developments (pp. 329 - 349). London: Elsevier

    Nahari, G. (2017). Top-down processes in interpersonal reality monitoring (RM) assessments. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 23, 232 - 242.

    Kleinberg, B., Nahari, G., Arntz, A., & Verschuere, B. (2017). An investigation of the detectability of false intent about flying. Collabra: Psychology, 3: 21, 1 – 14.

    Jupe, L. M., Leal, S; Vrij, A., & Nahari, G. (2017). Applying the Verifiability Approach in an International Airport Setting. Psychology, Crime and Law, 23, 812

    Harvey, C. H., Vrij, A., Leal, S., Lafferty, M., Nahari, G. (2017). Insurance-Based Lie Detection: Enhancing the Verifiability Approach with a Model Statement Component. Acta Psychologica, 174, 1- 8.

    Vrij, A., & Nahari, G. (2017). Verbal lie detection. In P. A. Granhag, R. Bull, A. Shaboltas, & E. Dozortseva (Eds.), Psychology and law in Europe: When West Meets East (pp. 263 - 282). London: CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group).    

    Harvey, A. C., Vrij, A., Nahari, G., & Ludwig, K. (2017). Applying the Verifiability Approach to insurance claims settings: Exploring the effect of the information protocol. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 22, 47 - 59. ‏

    Nahari, G. (2016). When the long road is the shortcut: A comparison between two coding methods for content-based lie detection tools. Psychology, Crime, & Law, 22, 1000-1014. 

    Leal, S., Vrij, A., Nahari, G., Geven, L, & Mann, S. (2016). Please be Honest and Provide Evidence: Deterrents of Deception in an Online Insurance Fraud Context. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30, 768 - 774.

    Vrij, A., Nahari, G., Isitt, R., & Leal, S. (2016). Using the verifiability lie detection approach in an insurance claim setting. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 13, 183–197.

    Jupe, L. M., Vrij, A., Nahari, G., Leal, S., & Mann, S. (2016). The lies we live: Using the Verifiability Approach to detect lying about occupation. Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, 13, 1 - 13. 

    Nahari, G. (2016). Advances in lie detection: limitations and potential for investigating allegations of abuse. In R. Burnett (Ed.), Vilified: Wrongful Allegations of Sexual and Child Abuse. Oxford: Oxford University Press

    Nahari, G., & Vrij, A. (2015). Systematic errors (biases) in applying verbal lie detection tools: Richness in detail as a test case. Crime Psychology Review, 1, 98 - 107. 

    Nahari, G., & Vrij, A. (2015). Can someone fabricate verifiable details when planning in advance? It all depends on the crime scenario. Psychology, Crime and Law, 21, 987 - 999.  

    Nahari, G., & Pazuelo, M. (2015). Telling a convincing story: Richness in detail as a function of gender and information. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4, 363 - 367.

    Nahari, G., Sheinfeld, V., Glicksohn, J., & Nachson, I. (2015). Serial reproduction of traumatic events: does the chain unravel?. Cognitive processing, 16, 111-120. ‏

    Nahari, G., Vrij, A., Leal, S., Warmelink, L., & Vernham, Z. (2014). Did somebody see it? Applying the verifiability approach to insurance claims interviews, Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 11, 237 – 243  

    Nahari, G., & Vrij, A. (2014). Can I Borrow Your Alibi? The Applicability of the Verifiability Approach to the Case of an Alibi Witness, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 3, 89 - 94.

    Nahari, G., Vrij, A., & Fisher, R. P. (2014). The verifiability approach: Countermeasures facilitate its ability to uncover lies. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 28, 122 - 128. 

    Nahari, G., Vrij, A. (2014). Are you as good as me at telling a story? Individual differences in interpersonal reality-monitoring. Psychology, Crime and Law, 20, 573 - 583

    Nahari, G., Vrij, A., & Fisher, R. P. (2014). Exploiting liars’ verbal strategies by examining the verifiability of details.  Legal and Criminological Psychology, 19, 227 - 239.

    Nahari, G. & Ben-Shakhar, G. (2013).  Primacy effect in credibility judgments: The vulnerability of verbal cues to biased interpretations. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 27, 247-255.

    Nahari, G., Vrij, A., & Fisher, R. P. (2012). Does the truth come out in the writing? SCAN as a lie detection tool. Law and Human Behavior, 36, 68-76.

    Nahari, G. (2012). Elaborations on credibility judgments by professional lie detectors and laypersons: strategies of judgment and justification. Psychology, Crime and Law, 18, 567-577.   

    Nahari, G. (2012). Individual differences between judges in credibility judgments of testimonies. In R. Peled-Laskov, E. Shoham, & M. Carmon (Eds), False convictions: Philosophical, organizational and psychological aspects (pp. 229-239). Tel-Aviv: Perlstein-Ginosar (Hebrew).

    Nahari, G. & Ben-Shakhar, G. (2011).  Psychophysiological and behavioral measures for detecting concealed information: The role of memory for crime details. Psychophysiology, 48, 733-875. 

    Nahari, G., Glicksohn, J., & Nachson, I. (2010). Credibility judgments of narratives:  Language, plausibility and absorption. American Journal of Psychology, 123, 319–335.

    Nahari, G. (2010). Credibility judgments: Biases which are inherent in the judge. Social Issues in Israel, 10, 6-27. (Hebrew). 

    Nahari, G. (2010). Cigarette smoking motives among Israeli young smokers: The role of personality and smoking level. Megamot, 47, 254-276. (Hebrew).

    Nahari, G., Glicksohn, J., & Nachson, I. (2009). Do textual features affect credibility judgment? It all depends on who is the Judge. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 288-295.

    Nahari, G. (2008). The role of perspective-taking in credibility judgments. In E. Avram (Ed.), Psychology in a positive world:  Resources for personal, organizational, and social development (pp. 77-86). Bucharest: University Press.

    Glicksohn, J., & Nahari, G. (2007). Interacting personality traits? Smoking as a test case. European Journal of Personality, 21, 225-234.

    Hazani, M., & Nahari, G. (2003). Social organization, intergenerational ties, and juvenile delinquency. International Review of Sociology, 13, 3-20.   

    Proceedings 

    Bitan, M., Nahari, G., Nisin, Z., Roth, A., & Kraus, S. (2017). Psychologically based Virtual-Suspect for Interrogative Interview Training. In International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (pp. 402-406). Springer International Publishing.‏ 

    Bitan, M., Nahari, G.,  Nisin, Z., Roth, A., & Kraus, S. (2016). Psychologically based Virtual-Suspect for Interrogative Interview Training (Short paper in IVA, 2016).

    Kleinberg, B, Nahari, G., & Verschuere , B. (2016). Using the verifiability of details as a test of deception: A conceptual framework for the automation of the verifiability approach. Proceeding of NAACL-HLT 2016, 18–25. 

    Last Updated Date : 19/11/2024