Section on the Neurochemistry of Emotion
The Neural Basis of Romantic Love (PDF)
The Neural Correlates of Maternal and Romantic Love (PDF)
Absolute Coding of Stimulus Novelty in the Human Substantia Nigra/VTA (PDF)
The Montreal Imaging Stress Task (PDF)
Romantic Love: A Mammalian Brain System for Mate Choice (PDF)
Evidence for Striatal Dopamine Release During a Video Game (PDF)
Craving Love? Enduring Grief Activates Brain’s Reward Center (PDF)
Stress-Induced Dopamine Release in Humans at Risk of Psychosis (PDF)
The Human Amygdala and the Emotional Evaluation of Sensory Stimuli (PDF)
Emotion, Olfaction, and the Human Amygdala (PDF)
Dopamine Transmission in the Human Striatum during Monetary Reward Tasks
Section on Childhood Torture
Child Torture: Practical Implications for Law Enforcement
A Primer on Child Torture for Law Enforcement
Summaries of Selected Child Torture Literature
Readings
A Road to Hope: The Path to Defining Child Torture to Protect the Children
Torture vs Child Abuse: What’s the Difference?
Immersion Scald Burns and the Ability of Young Children to Climb into a Bathtub
Falling Clothes Irons Rarely Cause Burns
Tortured Prosecuting: Closing the Gap in Virginia’s Criminal Code by Adding a Torture Statute
Accidental Barbie Doll – Related Vaginal Laceration in a 7 year old
Child torture victimization: review of criminal statutes and medico-legal issues
The Effect of Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences on Substance Use During Pregnancy
Child Torture as a Form of Child Abuse
A Precarious Gap in US Criminal Codes for Cases of Child Torture and Suggested Model Statute
Domestic Child Torture: Identifying Survivors and Seeking Justice
What have we learned about child maltreatment fatality prevention?
Child Torture: A Washington State Case Series
Through the Shadows: Exploring Domestic Child Torture
Supplemental Readings and Note from Dr. Matsumoto
Using Research for Investigative Decision Making
When using research to help inform decisions during investigations, decision makers must understand its legitimate use and limitations.
How to Conduct Patrol-Level Interviews
Though the mission of a patrol officer is different than that of an investigator, you will find that when it comes to teaching interviews and interrogations, the material is often geared toward an investigator. Here are tips for patrol-level interviews.
Introducing the APOD: Analysis of patterns of denial among males accused of sexual offending
Sex offenders have great incentive to deny and/or minimize their offense, and both researchers and treatment providers regularly encounter their socially desirable response patterns.
Deception Cues During High-Risk Situations: 911 Homicide Calls
During everyday interactions, cues tend to be weakly related to deception. However, there are theoretical reasons to suspect that such cues will be more prominent during high-risk interactions.
This article is related to the Personal Appearance subcategory of the World of Nonverbal Communication.
The Relationship between Gaze Behavior, Expertise, and Performance: A Systematic Review
This article demonstrates that one of the major functions of diverting gaze is to reduce information overload, which in turn optimizes amount of information processed
When our hands help us understand: A meta-analysis into the effects of gesture on comprehension
This article highlights how gestures facilitate cognition, which we cover in our classes. To recall, gestures have this facilitate effect because of the way thoughts and gestures are wired in our brains.
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin: Evaluating Truthfulness and Detecting Deception
By recognizing certain clues, investigators effectively can identify deception.
Social Influence in Investigative Interviews
We talk a lot about how to understand people’s emotions and how to read what they say accurately, but what about learning how we can change our behavior so that they are more forthcoming?
Exciting New Research about Microexpressions
Although microexpressions are analogous to longer-lasting ones in many ways, it is in their differences that much of the latest exciting science dwells.
Digging into Deception Detection
Last week we wrote about the importance of distinguishing micro and macro expressions, but we passed too quickly over deception detection.
How to Spot a Lying Politician
Can you tell anything about politicians’ accuracy by analyzing how they speak? A new analysis finds that lying politicians tend to be more verbose.
How to Read Microexpressions and Improve your Observational Skills
This special blog showcases an interview recently done with Humintell’s own Dr. David Matsumoto.
Microexpressions Differentiate Truths from Lies about Future Malicious Intent
Finally! The first scientific evidence that microexpressions are a Key to Deception Detection!