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The detection of deception during trials: Ignoring the nonverbal communication of witnesses is not the solution—A response to Vrij and Turgeon (2018)

“…However, they are not reliable indicators of truthfulness (Denault, Rioux-Turcotte and Tomas, in press). Moreover, as noted by Denault et al (in press; see also Rioux-Turcotte and Denault, 2018), pseudoscientific programmes, methods and approaches to ‘catch liars’ can disseminate dubious concepts regarding vocal and verbal messages. In other words, if jurors were advised to disregard facial expressions and gestures due to their possible use of erroneous beliefs and dubious concepts, shouldn’t they be advised to disregard testimonies as a whole?…”