Erik Mac Giolla
About Erik Mac Giolla
Biography
B.A. in psychology and philosophy from NUI Galway, 2009. M.A. in philosophy from the University of Gothenburg, 2010. M.Sc. in psychology from the University of Gothenburg, 2013. PhD in pscyhology from the University of Gothenburg, 2016. Docent (Associate Professor) in psychology from the University of Gothenburg, 2019.
Teaching
My primary teaching is on cognitive psychology at undergraduate and masters levels.
Research interests
My primary research interest is in legal psychology, as well as cognitive and social psychology.
Member of the research group Criminal, Legal and Investigative Psychology (CLIP).
Current research
I am currently involved in different projects on deception, eyewitnesses, and interview strategies. I am the Principle Investigator of a four year research project funded by the Swedish Research Council. For more information see https://climr.org/
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Interviewing witnesses in a second language: A comparison of interpreter-assisted, unaided, and self-administered
interviews
Emelie Ernberg, Erik Mac Giolla
Legal and Criminological Psychology - 2022 -
Linguistic concreteness of statements of true and false
intentions
Sofia Calderon, Erik Mac Giolla, Timothy Luke, Lara Warmelink, Karl Ask, Pär-Anders Granhag, Aldert Vrij
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - 2022 -
The Use of the Term Rapport in the Investigative Interviewing Literature: A critical Examination of
Definitions
David Amon Neequaye, Erik Mac Giolla
Meta-Psychology - 2022 -
The adaptable law enforcement officer: Exploring adaptability in a covert police
context
S. Oleszkiewicz, L. Weiher, Erik Mac Giolla
Legal and Criminological Psychology - 2022 -
Does Expertise Reduce Rates of Inattentional Blindness? A
Meta-Analysis
Malin Ekelund, Hanna Fernsund, Simon Karlsson, Erik Mac Giolla
Perception - 2022 -
When It’s Bad to Be Lucky: Observers’ Judgments of Fortuitous
Victims
Olof Wrede, Erik Mac Giolla
Basic and Applied Social Psychology - 2021 -
Does the cognitive approach to lie detection improve the accuracy of human
observers?
Erik Mac Giolla, Timothy Luke
Applied Cognitive Psychology - 2021 -
Gärningsmannaprofilering
Karl Ask, Erik Mac Giolla
Handbok i rättspsykologi (andra upplagan) - 2021 -
Vittneskonfrontationer
Pär-Anders Granhag, Erik Mac Giolla
Handbok i Rättspsykologi - 2021 -
Vittnespsykologi
Pär-Anders Granhag, Erik Mac Giolla
Handbok i rättspsykologi - 2021 -
Att förhindra framtida
brott
Pär-Anders Granhag, Erik Mac Giolla, Sofia Calderon
Handbok i Rättspsykologi - 2021 -
To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception
apply?
Benedict C. Jones, Lisa M. DeBruine, Jessica K. Flake, Marco Tullio Liuzza, Jan Antfolk, Nwadiogo C. Arinze, Izuchukwu L.G. Ndukaihe, Nicholas G. Bloxsom, Savannah C. Lewis, Francesco Foroni, Megan L. Willis, Carmelo P. Cubillas, Miguel A. Vadillo, Enrique Turiegano, Michael Gilead, Almog Simchon, S. Adil Saribay, Nicholas C. Owsley, Chaning Jang, Georgina Mburu, Dustin P. Calvillo, Anna Wlodarczyk, Yue Qi, Kris Ariyabuddhiphongs, Somboon Jarukasemthawee, Harry Manley, Panita Suavansri, Nattasuda Taephant, Ryan M. Stolier, Thomas R. Evans, Judson Bonick, Jan W. Lindemans, Logan F. Ashworth, Amanda C. Hahn, Coralie Chevallier, Aycan Kapucu, Aslan Karaaslan, Juan David Leongómez, Oscar R. Sánchez, Eugenio Valderrama, Milena Vásquez-Amézquita, Nandor Hajdu, Balazs Aczel, Peter Szecsi, Michael Andreychik, Erica D. Musser, Carlota Batres, Chuan Peng Hu, Qing Lan Liu, Nicole Legate, Leigh Ann Vaughn, Krystian Barzykowski, Karolina Golik, Irina Schmid, Stefan Stieger, Richard Artner, Chiel Mues, Wolf Vanpaemel, Zhongqing Jiang, Qi Wu, Gabriela M. Marcu, Ian D. Stephen, Jackson G. Lu, Michael C. Philipp, Jack D. Arnal, Eric Hehman, Sally Y. Xie, William J. Chopik, Martin Seehuus, Soufian Azouaghe, Abdelkarim Belhaj, Jamal Elouafa, John P. Wilson, Elliott Kruse, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Anabel De La Rosa-Gómez, Alan E. Barba-Sánchez, Isaac González-Santoyo, Tsuyueh Hsu, Chun Chia Kung, Hsiao Hsin Wang, Jonathan B. Freeman, Dong Won Oh, Vidar Schei, Therese E. Sverdrup, Carmel A. Levitan, Corey L. Cook, Priyanka Chandel, Pratibha Kujur, Arti Parganiha, Noorshama Parveen, Atanu Kumar Pati, Sraddha Pradhan, Margaret M. Singh, Babita Pande, Jozef Bavolar, Pavol Kačmár, Ilya Zakharov, Sara Álvarez-Solas, Ernest Baskin, Erik Mac Giolla, Karl Ask
Nature Human Behaviour - 2021 -
Subjective likelihood and the construal level of future events: A replication study of Wakslak, Trope, Liberman, and Alony
(2006)
Sofia Calderon, Erik Mac Giolla, Karl Ask, Pär-Anders Granhag
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - 2020 -
What to do with all these Bayes factors: How to make Bayesian reports in deception research more
informative
Erik Mac Giolla, Alexander Ly
Legal and Criminological Psychology - 2020 -
Approach, avoidance, and the perception of
credibility
Karl Ask, Sofia Calderon, Erik Mac Giolla, Marc-André Reinhard
Open Psychology - 2020 -
Human Lie-Detection Performance: Does Random Assignment versus Self-Selection of Liars and Truth-Tellers
Matter?
Karl Ask, Sofia Calderon, Erik Mac Giolla
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - 2020 -
The mental representation of true and false intentions: a comparison of schema-consistent and schema-inconsistent
tasks
Sofia Calderon, Karl Ask, Erik Mac Giolla, Pär-Anders Granhag
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications - 2019 -
Sex differences in personality are larger in gender equal countries: Replicating and extending a surprising
finding
Erik Mac Giolla, Petri Kajonius
International Journal of Psychology - 2019 -
True and false intentions: A Science of lies about the
future
Erik Mac Giolla, Pär-Anders Granhag
The Palgrave Handbook of Deceptive Communication - 2019 -
Can reality monitoring criteria distinguish between true and false
intentions?
Erik Mac Giolla, Karl Ask, Pär-Anders Granhag, Annica Karlsson
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - 2019 -
Drawings of false intentions are more abstract than drawings of true
intentions
Sofia Calderon, Erik Mac Giolla, Karl Ask, Pär-Anders Granhag
The 28th conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law, Turku, Finland: June 26-29, 2018 - 2018 -
Using the cognitive approach to deception to distinguishing between true and false intentions: Problems and
opportunities
Erik Mac Giolla
Paper presented at the 28th meeting of the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL). 26-29 June, Turku, Finland - 2018 -
Detecting deception via verbal cues: Towards a context sensitive research
agenda
Pär-Anders Granhag, Mark Fallon, Zarah Vernham, Erik Mac Giolla
The psychology of criminal investigation - 2018 -
Drawing what lies ahead: False intentions are more abstractly depicted than true
intentions
Sofia Calderon, Erik Mac Giolla, Karl Ask, Pär-Anders Granhag
Applied Cognitive Psychology - 2018 -
Interviewing
suspects
Erik Mac Giolla, Pär-Anders Granhag
Davies G. M. & Beech A. R. (eds) Forensic Psychology: Crime, Justice, Law Interventions - 2018 -
A Goal-Activation Framework of True and False
Intentions
Erik Mac Giolla, Pär-Anders Granhag, Karl Ask
Applied Cognitive Psychology - 2017 -
Do True and False Intentions Differ in Level of Abstraction? A Test of Construal Level Theory in Deception
Contexts
Sofia Calderon, Erik Mac Giolla, Pär-Anders Granhag, Karl Ask
Frontiers in Psychology - 2017 -
Drawing-based deception detection techniques: A state-of-the-art
review
Erik Mac Giolla, Pär-Anders Granhag, Zarah Vernham
Crime Psychology Review - 2017 -
Partners under Pressure: Examining the Consistency of True and False Alibi
Statements
Marthe Lefsaker Sakrisvold, Pär-Anders Granhag, Erik Mac Giolla
Behavioral Sciences & the Law - 2017 -
Personality traits across countries: Support for similarities rather than
differences
Petri Kajonius, Erik Mac Giolla
Plos One - 2017 -
Mentally Representing True and False Intentions: Applying Construal Level Theory to Deception Detection
Contexts
Sofia Calderon, Erik Mac Giolla, Pär-Anders Granhag, Karl Ask
29th APS Annual Convention. Boston, Ma, USA: 25-28 May - 2017 -
Task-related spontaneous thought: A novel direction in the study of true and false
intentions
Erik Mac Giolla, Pär-Anders Granhag, Karl Ask
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - 2017 -
When it’s bad to be lucky: Others’ judgements of fortuitous
victims
Erik Mac Giolla, Olof Wrede
The 26th meeting of the European Association of psychology and Law (EAPL). Toulouse, France: 5-8 July 2016 - 2016 -
Discriminating between statements of true and false intent: The impact of repeated interviews and strategic
questioning
Pär-Anders Granhag, Erik Mac Giolla, Tuule Sooniste, Leif Strömwall, Meiling Liu-Jönsson
Journal of Applied Security Research - 2016 -
Towards a theory of true and false
intentions
Erik Mac Giolla
2016 -
Analyzing true and false intentions in terms of psychological distance: An application of the Construal Level
Theory
Sofia Calderon, Pär-Anders Granhag, Karl Ask, Erik Mac Giolla
12th Meeting of the Nordic Network for research on Psychology and Law, September 2016, Uppsala - 2016 -
Strategic interviewing to elicit admissions: Making guilty suspects more
forthcoming
Serra Tekin, Pär-Anders Granhag, Erik Mac Giolla
American Psychology-Law Society Annual Conference, March 2015, San Diego, USA - 2015 -
You’re alright, it could have been worse: Perceived support needs of lucky and unlucky
victims
Olof Wrede, Erik Mac Giolla
11th Meeting of the Nordic Network for Research on Psychology and Law, Reykjavik, Iceland - 2015 -
Consistency across repeated statements of true and false
intent
Erik Mac Giolla, Pär-Anders Granhag, Tuule Sooniste, Leif Strömwall, Meiling Liu-Jönsson
Conference of European Association of Psychology and Law, August, 2015, Nuremberg - 2015 -
Detecting False Intent Amongst Small Cells of Suspects: Single Versus Repeated
Interviews
Erik Mac Giolla, Pär-Anders Granhag
Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling - 2015 -
Interviewing Strategically to Elicit Admissions From Guilty
Suspects
Serra Tekin, Pär-Anders Granhag, Leif Strömwall, Erik Mac Giolla, Aldert Vrij, Maria Hartwig
Law and human behavior - 2015 -
Suspects’ verbal counter-interrogation strategies: Towards an integrative
model
Pär-Anders Granhag, Maria Hartwig, Erik Mac Giolla, Franziska Clemens
Detecting deception - 2015 -
Discriminating between true and false
intentions
Erik Mac Giolla, Pär-Anders Granhag, A Vrij
Detecting deception - 2015 -
Discriminating between True and False
Intentions
Erik Mac Giolla, Pär-Anders Granhag, A. Vrij
Detecting Deception: Current Challenges and Cognitive Approaches - 2014 -
Strategic interviewing to elicit new information: Making liars more
forthcoming
Serra Tekin, Pär-Anders Granhag, Erik Mac Giolla
Conference of European Association of Psychology and Law, June 2014, Saint Petersburg, Russia - 2014 -
Crime on the border: Use of evidence in customs
interviews
Pär-Anders Granhag, Franziska Clemens, Leif Strömwall, Erik Mac Giolla
Archives of Forensic Psychology - 2014 -
Discriminating between true and false intentions: The role of
planning
Erik Mac Giolla
2014 -
Suspects' Verbal Counter-Interrogation Strategies: Towards an Integrative
Model
Erik Mac Giolla, Pär-Anders Granhag
10th Meeting of the Nordic Network for Research On Psychology and Law, Oslo, Norway - 2014 -
Preventing future crimes: Identifying markers of true and false
intent
Pär-Anders Granhag, Erik Mac Giolla
European Psychologist - 2014 -
'I saw the man who killed Anna Lindh!': A case study of witnesses' offender
descriptions
Pär-Anders Granhag, Karl Ask, Lisa Öhman, Anna Rebelius, Erik Mac Giolla
Psychology, Crime and Law - 2013 -
Eyewitness recall: An overview of estimator-based
research
Pär-Anders Granhag, Karl Ask, Erik Mac Giolla
The Sage Handbook of Applied Memory - 2013 -
Counter-Interrogation Strategies among Small Cells of
Suspects
Pär-Anders Granhag, Erik Mac Giolla, Leif Strömwall, Jenny Rangmar
Psychiatry Psychology and Law - 2013 -
Markers of good planning behavior as a cue for separating true and false
intent
Erik Mac Giolla, Pär-Anders Granhag, Meiling Liu-Jönsson
PsyCh Journal - 2013 -
Intention related spontaneous thought as a cue to distinguish truth tellers from
liars
Erik Mac Giolla, Pär-Anders Granhag, Karl Ask
9th Meeting of the Nordic Network for Research On Psychology and Law, Aarhus, Denmark. - 2013 -
Detecting false intent among small cells of suspects: Single versus repeated
interviews
Erik Mac Giolla, Pär-Anders Granhag
3rd Annual High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) Research Symposium, Washington, DC. - 2013 -
Discriminating between true and false intentions with an evaluative priming
task
Pär-Anders Granhag, Karl Ask, Erik Mac Giolla
NNPL in Oslo, Norway September 16-17 2011 - 2011