Thomas D Lyon
Biographic Data
| ID | 5877438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas D Lyon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas D |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyon |
| SIGNATURE | LYON T D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California—Gould School of Law |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Identifying Liars Through Automatic Decoding of Children's Facial Expressions
This study explored whether children's (N = 158; 4- to 9 years old) nonverbal facial expressions can be used to identify when children are being deceptive. Using a computer vision program to automatically decode children's facial expressions according to the Facial Action Coding System, this study employed machine learning to determine whether facial expressions can be used to discriminate between children who concealed breaking a toy(liars) and …
Young children's emerging ability to make false statements
This study examined the origins of children's ability to make consciously false statements, a necessary component of lying. Children 2 to 5 years of age were rewarded for claiming that they saw a picture of a bird when viewing pictures of fish. They were asked outcome questions ("Do you win/lose?"), recognition questions ("Do you have a bird/fish?"), and recall questions ("What do you have?"), which were hypothesized to vary in difficulty dependi…
From Post‐Mortem to Preventive Medicine
We propose five directions for future child witness research, inspired by recognition of the day‐to‐day realities of the legal system and the opportunities of psychology to react proactively to challenges child witnesses face. These directions include (1) the refinement of developmentally sensitive questioning aids that increase completeness without increasing suggestibility, (2) the development of approaches to non‐disclosure and recantation, in…
False allegations and false denials in child sexual abuse
The amicus brief in the Kelly Michaels case ignores the risks that abused children will fail to reveal abuse unless direct and sometimes leading questions are asked.Although the brief correctly criticizes previous research for understating the risks that aggressive interviewing practices will lead young children to make false allegations of abuse, it overstates the likelihood that false allegations occur by overlooking the aspects of the Kelly Mi…
Young children's emerging ability to make false statements
This study examined the origins of children's ability to make consciously false statements, a necessary component of lying. Children 2 to 5 years of age were rewarded for claiming that they saw a picture of a bird when viewing pictures of fish. They were asked outcome questions ("Do you win/lose?"), recognition questions ("Do you have a bird/fish?"), and recall questions ("What do you have?"), which were hypothesized to vary in difficulty dependi…
From Post‐Mortem to Preventive Medicine
We propose five directions for future child witness research, inspired by recognition of the day‐to‐day realities of the legal system and the opportunities of psychology to react proactively to challenges child witnesses face. These directions include (1) the refinement of developmentally sensitive questioning aids that increase completeness without increasing suggestibility, (2) the development of approaches to non‐disclosure and recantation, in…
False allegations and false denials in child sexual abuse
The amicus brief in the Kelly Michaels case ignores the risks that abused children will fail to reveal abuse unless direct and sometimes leading questions are asked.Although the brief correctly criticizes previous research for understating the risks that aggressive interviewing practices will lead young children to make false allegations of abuse, it overstates the likelihood that false allegations occur by overlooking the aspects of the Kelly Mi…
From Post‐Mortem to Preventive Medicine
We propose five directions for future child witness research, inspired by recognition of the day‐to‐day realities of the legal system and the opportunities of psychology to react proactively to challenges child witnesses face. These directions include (1) the refinement of developmentally sensitive questioning aids that increase completeness without increasing suggestibility, (2) the development of approaches to non‐disclosure and recantation, in…
Young children's emerging ability to make false statements
This study examined the origins of children's ability to make consciously false statements, a necessary component of lying. Children 2 to 5 years of age were rewarded for claiming that they saw a picture of a bird when viewing pictures of fish. They were asked outcome questions ("Do you win/lose?"), recognition questions ("Do you have a bird/fish?"), and recall questions ("What do you have?"), which were hypothesized to vary in difficulty dependi…
Identifying Liars Through Automatic Decoding of Children's Facial Expressions
This study explored whether children's (N = 158; 4- to 9 years old) nonverbal facial expressions can be used to identify when children are being deceptive. Using a computer vision program to automatically decode children's facial expressions according to the Facial Action Coding System, this study employed machine learning to determine whether facial expressions can be used to discriminate between children who concealed breaking a toy(liars) and …
Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Child abuse (2 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (2 works) · Child sexual abuse (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Deception (2 works) · Deception detection and forensic psychology (2 works)