Prof. Galit Nahari is the head of the Department of Criminology at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and the editor of Legal and Criminological Psychology. Her main research interests are legal and investigative decision-making, applied memory, detection of deception and witnesses credibility assessments. As part of it, she develops interrogation and lie-detection methods (prime example is the Verifiability Approach), examines their validity and suitability in different contexts, and their vulnerability to judgmental biases. A major part of her research further focuses on the cognitive processes underlies credibility and veracity assessments, as well as on individual differences which impact these assessments.

Research

1. Detection of deception and witnesses credibility assessments
2. Legal and investigative decision-making
3. Forensic judgmental biases
4. Interpersonal Reality Monitoring
5. Detection of concealed information. 
6. Applied memory
7. Criminal psychology and liar's strategies
8. Verifiability approach