Cody Porter

Articles by: Cody Porter

Spotting liars is hard – but our new method is effective and ethical

20th January 2021

Cody Porter, Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Portsmouth,

OPINION: Lie detector tests such as polygraphs, which use an individual’s anxiety levels to indicate the veracity of their statements, have been criticised as ‘theoretically weak’ and unreliable; but new methods which rely on the asymmetry in responses from liars and truth-tellers could be the way forward, as University of Portsmouth Senior Teaching Fellow Cody Porter explains.

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Cody Porter
Senior Teaching Fellow

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Cody Porter is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Psychology and Offending Behaviour at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies (ICJS), University of Portsmouth. She teaches across a variety of criminology and psychology modules, and runs her own Forensic Psychology and Mental Health module. Cody graduated from Bangor University in 2014 with a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, and from the University of Portsmouth in 2015 with an MSc in Forensic Psychology. Her PhD investigates information elicitation and deception detection within forensic interviews, and her other research interests include offending behaviour, public perceptions, and impacts of mental health on offending. She has extensive experience of working with offenders who have complex mental health conditions and/or personality disorders, including sex offenders using parts of the Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP), within adult secure units. Cody has also worked in the UK’s Highest Secure Unit for adolescents, and has experience in Cognitive Remediation Therapy (CRT), and Dialectic Behavioural Therapy (DBT), as well as other ward based interventions.