new data on PTSD & credibility assessments presented in US

Preliminary data from Hannah Rogers' exciting new study on credibility assessment were presented this week at the annual meeting of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, in Baltimore. Some of the world's foremost PTSD researchers and practitioners attend this meeting and there was a great deal of interest in the findings. Briefly, Hannah had noticed that the things that we think people do when they are lying overlap with some of the things that people might do when they have PTSD (e.g. looking ashamed or anxious). She asked a group of Royal Holloway students to assess the credibility of an actor playing an asylum seeker presenting as either lying or with PTSD (or both!). We are currently submitting a paper for publication in a high impact, peer-reviewed psychology journal - to be announced here once we are 'in press'.