SIGNÉ TONTON!!!

Je pense que c'est la signature de son message qui me tue le plus.

Beliefs, Confidence, and Attribution Bias Regarding Deception Cues in Police Officers and Lay People - Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology This study examined beliefs about deception cues among police officers and lay people, focusing on three questions. It aimed to replicate the no-difference hypothesis between these groups, explore the...

Citing this paper: Tomas, F., Fernandes, M., Mohr, C., & Demarchi, S. (2025). Beliefs, Confidence, and Attribution Bias regarding Deception Cues in Police Officers and Lay People. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. doi.org/10.1007/s118...
Preprint here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

🚨 In sum, both groups share inaccurate beliefs about cues like gaze aversion and fidgeting. High confidence in their beliefs also led to more deception cues expectations. People judged strangers more harshly than themselves or close ones. This means training of law enforcement is essential.

We assessed 3 questions:
1. Do police officers have more accurate beliefs than laypeople? (Nope.)
2. Does confidence in your beliefs mean expecting more signs of lying? (Yep.)
3. Do we expect strangers to show more signs of lying than ourselves or close others? (Yep again—hello attribution bias!)

🔍 New research out!

Colleagues from @unil.bsky.social, @univ-paris8.fr , and myself (@tilburg-university.bsky.social) explored how police officers and laypeople think about deception cues—and whether those beliefs hold up. This paper is now out in the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology!

Chatbots in eyewitness testimonies

Conference at the Belgian National Police

This week, I had the privilege to present our work at the Department of Communication and Cognition (@tilburg-university.bsky.social) on the use of chatbots for eyewitness interviewing purposes in the buildings of the Belgian National Police to a large panel of French-speaking police psychologists.

Il est sur ma liste. J'ai très très hâte.

What. The. Actual. Frack.

Very proud to be part of this round table around the fighting of misinformation at ZPLS 7th edition with @lewan.bsky.social and @cbucken.bsky.social. Anyone interested in misinformation is of course welcome to join: the program is freaking interesting and it's completely free!

Hegseth’s Personal Phone Use Created Vulnerabilities The phone number used in the Signal chat could also be found in a variety of places, including on social media and a fantasy sports site.

Might be true considering the NYTimes report here, though I can't find the Der Spiegel paper.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

Pope Francis Dies at 88: Latest News His groundbreaking pontificate worked to make the Catholic Church more inclusive. Cardinals will now decide whether to continue his approach or restore more doctrinaire leadership.

Apparently, meeting JD Vance can have serious consequences.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

Il y a un enjeu à l'accueil des collègues étasuniens en UE : celui du refinancement de l'enseignement supérieur. Imaginez débouler en France d'universités américaines hyperfinancées, pour voir qu'en moins de 20 ans, on a réussi à définancer l'ESR de 30%. Soyons vraiment attractifs : refinancons.

Le KitKat, c'est clairement la vie.

Les deux hypothèses (association par proximité phonologique et anticipation) qui se retrouvent également dans le lapsus calami! :)

Trop jeune pour acheter de l’alcool ou des cigarettes ? Une caméra permet de déterminer l’âge du client C’est une petite caméra située sur le comptoir de cette librairie. Elle analyse, de façon très rapide, le visage du...

"On la dit fiable à 99%. Lors de notre visite dans une librairie qui a installé cette caméra, le voyant est resté vert alors que le client n’avait que 17 ans. Mais il est passé au rouge pour une jeune femme de plus de 30 ans…"

L'IA marketing a encore frappé.

🤦

www.rtbf.be/article/trop...

J'apprécie que tu aies enlevé la titraille de guignols, mais faut afficher ce genre de propos honteux.

On notera qu'en français, le département de Musk deviendrait le "Département d'Efficacité Gouvernementale", ou "DEG", et je trouve ça savoureux.

Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023 This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some ...

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years.

A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)

$2.5B in 2023 alone.

arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

Les teuteus sont de sortie, je vois.

Paper available here: www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

Preprint available here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

😰 Social anxiety moderates this—high anxiety lowers adoption, even if easy to use.
🚔 Trust in police & chatbot experience? No impact.

📢 Why it matters:
Psychological factors shape tech adoption in law enforcement. Understanding them can improve police efficiency and eyewitness reporting.

⚠️ New publication alert! ⚠️

🤖👮💬 Would you trust a chatbot for an eyewitness interview?

Our new study (Tomas & Immerzeel, J. Crim. Psych., 2025) explores why people adopt chatbots in investigations.

🔍 Key findings:
✅ The more useful and easy to use, the higher the adoption.

J'espère pouvoir assister à au moins une ou deux d'entre elles !

Delicious.

Thanks Julia!

Encore une étude basée sur un échantillon représentatif de la population qui trouve la même chose que nous: les élèves surdoués réussissent mieux scolairement, ont moins de problèmes de comportement, et ne sont pas différents des autres en termes de fonctionnement social et émotionnel.
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No idea if I'm a top researcher, but if I could be added to the list, I would greatly appreciate!

Vraiment du retour en arrière pour le plaisir...

So proud of my students that I forgot to post about my work on AI disclosures on Instagram, and their negative effect on ad & brand attitude at @etmaal2025.bsky.social, an effect partly explained by low perceived creativity & effort.
If you haven't seen the poster yet, here it is! #etmaal2025