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Pär-Anders Granhag
Professor
Department of Psychology - Applied PsychologyAbout Pär-Anders Granhag
Biography
- Visiting Professor at The Norwegian Police University College (2013-2015)
- Funding Coordinator Nordic Network for research on Psychology & Law
- President European Association of Psychology & Law
Teaching
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Research interests
The research unit for Criminal, Legal and Investigative Psychology (CLIP).
Current research
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Selected publications
Granhag, P.A. & Strömwall, L.A. (2004). The detection of deception in forensic contexts. (Red:er). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fahsing, I.A., Ask, K. & Granhag, P.A. (2004). The man behind the mask: Accuracy and predictors of eyewitness offender descriptions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89, 722-729.
Granhag, P.A. & Vrij, A. (2005). Detecting deception. In N. Brewer, & K. Williams (Red:er). Psychology & Law: An empirical perspective (ss. 43-92). New York: Guilford Press.
Hartwig, M., Granhag, P.A., Strömwall, L.A. & Vrij, A. (2005). Detecting deception via strategic disclosure of evidence. Law and Human Behavior, 29, 469-484.
Leander, L., Granhag, P.A. & Christianson, S.Å. (2005). Children exposed to obscene phone calls: What they remember and tell. Child Abuse & Neglect, 29, 871-888.
Other
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Eliciting information through subtle topic
steering
Erik Mac Giolla, Pär-Anders Granhag, Lovisa Lidell, David A. Neequaye, Timothy Luke
JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY - 2026 -
The Shift-of-Strategy (SoS) Approach: From Deception to New
Information
Lina Nyström, Pär-Anders Granhag, Timothy Luke
Verbal Lie Detection - 2026 -
The Strategic Use of Evidence (SUE) Technique: Implementation and
Applications
Pär-Anders Granhag, Maria Hartwig
Verbal Lie Detection - 2026 -
Theories on Verbal Lie
Detection
Maria Hartwig, Pär-Anders Granhag
Verbal Lie Detection - 2026 -
The History of Verbal Lie
Detection
Pär-Anders Granhag
Verbal Lie Detection - 2026 -
Verbal Lie
Detection
Pär-Anders Granhag, Galit Nahari
2026 -
Increasing the Disclosure of Information From Suspects in Investigative Interviews Through Brief Training in the Shift-of-Strategy
Approach
Lina Nyström, Timothy Luke, Pär-Anders Granhag, Ana Knezevic, Paulina Engman, Emma Neofotistos, Minna Määttä, Naiara Ferreira Vieira Castello, Bettina Buckbee, Gozde Siir, Anna Tsoukala
PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC POLICY AND LAW - 2026 -
The Scharff technique for eliciting human intelligence
(HUMINT)
Pär-Anders Granhag
Baltic Rim Economies Review: Intelligence & Foresight - 2026 -
Effects of Evidential and Non-Evidential Interrogation Techniques on Suspects' Perception of Evidence in South
Korea
Minhwan Jang, Timothy Luke, Pär-Anders Granhag, Aldert Vrij, Mooel Kim
Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling - 2026 -
Using Large Language Model-Based Artificial Intelligence (AI) Suspects to Train Strategic Use of Evidence: Preliminary Evidence of Transfer to Mock Suspect
Interviews
Siyu Li, Pär-Anders Granhag, Yunhan Shi, Yongjie Sun, Thomas J. Nyman, Shumpei Haginoya, Pekka Santtila
LAW AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR - 2026 -
Mordet i
korridoren
Pär-Anders Granhag
Glänta - 2025 -
Scientific Interrogation: The Strategic Use of Evidence (SUE)
technique
E Perez-Campos Mayoral, Mark Severino, Haneen Deeb, Pär-Anders Granhag, E Perez-Campos, Maria Hartwig, Mark Fallon
Beyond reasonable doubt: The contribution of forensic science to the pursuit of justice with a human rights focus - 2025 -
What have we learned about cues to deception? A survey of expert
opinions
Timothy Luke, Erik Mac Giolla, Amina Memon, Sara Landström, Pär-Anders Granhag, Saul Kassin
Psychology, Crime and Law - 2025 -
Advances in Investigative Interviewing: Evaluating the Impact of Training in the Shift-of-Strategy approach on Information
Disclosure
Lina Nyström, Timothy Luke, Pär-Anders Granhag, Ana Knezevic, Bettina Buckbee, Anna Tsoukala, Minna Määttä, Naiara Castello
2025 Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society - 2025 -
Impacts of physical and testimonial evidence on South Korean Police interrogator's selection of
tactics
Minhwan Jang, Timothy Luke, Pär-Anders Granhag, Aldert Vrij, Woohyun Lee
PSYCHIATRY PSYCHOLOGY AND LAW - 2025 -
A serious game with avatar suspects can be used to train naive participants in the Strategic Use of
Evidence
Siyu Li, R Ahlgren, Y Wang, S Haginoya, Pär-Anders Granhag, P Santtila
Journal of Forensic Psychology: Research and Practice - 2025 -
Knowledge of legal professionals about age trends in false memory propensity: a vignette
study
Sanne T. L. Houben, Henry Otgaar, Pär-Anders Granhag, Emma Roos Af Hjelmsäter, Melanie Sauerland
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS - 2024 -
Perkins Operations: Tactics Used in Undercover
Interactions
Simon Oleszkiewicz, Pär-Anders Granhag, Timothy Luke
International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence - 2024 -
Advancing the Shift-of-Strategy approach: Shifting suspects' strategies in extended
interviews.
Lina Nyström, Timothy Luke, Pär-Anders Granhag, Aziz-Kaan Dönmez, Malin Ekelund, Pär Stern
Law and human behavior - 2024 -
The principle of reciprocity in Scharff
interviews
Nicola Palena, Pär-Anders Granhag, Aldert Vrij, Robin Orthey, Roberto Monticciolo, Letizia Caso
Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling - 2024 -
Interviewing
suspects
Erik Mac Giolla, Pär-Anders Granhag
Forensic Psychology: Crime, Justice, Law & Interventions - 2024 -
Using shared experiences to recruit committed human intelligence sources: Exploring the shared attention mechanism and the role of social
connection
David Amon Neequaye, Pär-Anders Granhag
Legal and Criminological Psychology - 2024 -
Detecting
deception
Pär-Anders Granhag, Maria Hartwig
Forensic Psychology: Crime, Justice, Law & Interventions - 2024 -
The future of forensic psychology. Core topics and emerging
trends
Sara Landström, Pär-Anders Granhag, Peter van Koppen
2023 -
The present and future of verbal lie
detection
Aldert Vrij, Pär-Anders Granhag, Sharon Leal, Ron Fisher, Steven Kleinman, Tzachi Ashkenazi
The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Law - 2023 -
Training Intelligence Officers to Detect Deception and Elicit
Information
Pär-Anders Granhag
International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence - 2023 -
Exploring how members of illicit networks navigate investigative
interviews
David Amon Neequaye, Pär-Anders Granhag, Timothy Luke
Royal Society Open Science - 2023 -
The Scharff
technique
Pär-Anders Granhag
Interviewing and Interrogation: A Review of Research and Practice Since World War II - 2023 -
Strategic Use of Evidence: A Review of the Technique and Its
Principles
Maria Hartwig, Pär-Anders Granhag
Interviewing and Interrogation: A Review of Research and Practice Since World War II - 2023 -
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 - 2023 -
The shift-of-strategy (SoS) approach: using evidence strategically to influence suspects’ counter-interrogation
strategies
Timothy Luke, Pär-Anders Granhag
Psychology, Crime and Law - 2023 -
Deception and
emotion
Timothy Luke, David Amon Neequaye, Maria Hartwig, Pär-Anders Granhag
Langauge and Emotion: An International handbook - 2023 -
The detection of lies: Emotional and Cognitive
Approaches
Pär-Anders Granhag
Swedish Cognitive Science Society - 2023 -
Advancing the Shift-Of-Strategy approach: Keeping suspects motivated with “cooling
off”
tactics
Lina Nyström, Timothy Luke, Pär-Anders Granhag, Aziz-Kaan Dönmez, Malin Ekelund, Pär Stern, Fanny Habacht , Arman Raver
Annual Conference of The European Association of Psychology and Law, EAPL 2023 - 2023 -
Advancing the Shift-of-Strategy Approach: Shifting counter-interrogation strategies in extended
interrogations
Lina Nyström, Timothy Luke, Pär-Anders Granhag, Aziz-Kaan Dönmez, Malin Ekelund, Pär Stern
American Psychology-Law Society Annual Conference 2023. Philadelphia: 16-18 March. - 2023 -
Swedish police officers' strategies when interviewing suspects who decline to answer
questions
Mikaela Magnusson, Emelie Ernberg, Pär-Anders Granhag, Lina Nyström, Timothy Luke
Legal and Criminological Psychology - 2023 -
Mapping Details to Elicit Information and Cues to Deceit: The Effects of Map
Richness
H. Deeb, A. Vrij, S. Leal, M. Fallon, S. Mann, K. Luther, Pär-Anders Granhag
European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context - 2022 -
Examining illicit networks in laboratory experiments with a preliminary focus on
communication
David Amon Neequaye, Pär-Anders Granhag, Andreas Segerberg, Daniel Pettersson
Legal and Criminological Psychology - 2022 -
Sketching routes to elicit information and cues to
deceit
H. Deeb, A. Vrij, S. Leal, M. Fallon, S. Mann, K. Luther, Pär-Anders Granhag
Applied Cognitive Psychology - 2022 -
Verbal Lie Detection: Its Past, Present and
Future
Aldert Vrij, Pär-Anders Granhag, Tzachi Ashkenazi, Giorgi Ganis, Sharon Leal, Ron Fisher
Brain Sciences - 2022 -
Handbok i
rättspsykologi
Pär-Anders Granhag, Leif Strömwall, Karl Ask, Sara Landström
2021 -
Plausibility: A Verbal Cue to Veracity worth
Examining?
A. Vrij, H. Deeb, S. Leal, Pär-Anders Granhag, R. P. Fisher
European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context - 2021 -
What to Reveal and what to Conceal? An Empirical Examination of Guilty Suspects’
Strategies
Meghana Srivatsav, Pär-Anders Granhag, Leif Strömwall, Timothy Luke, Aldert Vrij
II-RP JOURNAL (förkortning för Investigative Interviewing: Research and Practice) - 2021 -
Psykologiska perspektiv på
bevisvärdering
Pär-Anders Granhag, Karl Ask
Handbok i rättspsykologi - 2021 -
Rättspsykologins
tillämpningar
Leif Strömwall, Karl Ask, Pär-Anders Granhag, Sara Landström
Handbok i Rättspsykologi - 2021 -
Vittneskonfrontationer
Pär-Anders Granhag, Erik Mac Giolla
Handbok i Rättspsykologi - 2021 -
Vittnespsykologi
Pär-Anders Granhag, Erik Mac Giolla
Handbok i rättspsykologi - 2021 -
Rättspsykologi - en kort
introduktion
Pär-Anders Granhag
Handbok i Rättspsykologi - 2021 -
Minne för traumatiska
händelser
Pär-Anders Granhag, Leif Strömwall, Sara Landström
Handbok i Rättspsykologi - 2021 -
Förhör med
misstänkt
Pär-Anders Granhag, Mikaela Magnusson
Handbok i Rättspsykologi - 2021
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