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Recent research has demonstrated that the way in which interviewers reveal information/evidence to interviewees/suspects can produce noticeable differences between truthful and deceptive verbal statements. However, very little of this research has involved adolescents. In the present study, 12 to 14 year old adolescents were asked to commit (n = 26) or not to commit (n = 26) a mock crime and at interview to deny involvement in this crime. Prior to interview some information about each adolescent's behaviour was made available to the interviewer but this was not enough to enable determination of whether he or she had committed the crime. The interviewer revealed such information either at the beginning of the interview (the 'traditional method'), at the end of the interview (as pioneered by the 'SUE' technique), or gradually. The interviews were analysed for interviewees' 'evidence omissions' and 'statement-evidence contradictions'. As predicted, liars omitted more crime-related information/details and their statements were significantly more inconsistent with the information/evidence known to/disclosed by the interviewer. The timing of the interviewer's evidence revelation had a significant effect on liars' mentioning during their free recall of some of this information and on the total number of details mentioned in free recall. ; Peer-reviewed ; Publisher Version

THIS STUDY WAS CONCERNED WITH THE FACIAL APPEARANCE OF CANDIDATES IN THE 1979 BRITISH GENERAL ELECTION. ONE OF ITS TWO AIMS WAS TO SEE IF THE FINDINGS OF BULL AND HAWKES (1982) WOULD BE REPLICATED IN MARGINAL CONSTITUENCIES. THIS PROVED TO BE THE CASE IN THAT THE FACES OF CANDIDATES THAT OBSERVERS (WHO DID NOT KNOW THEM) JUDGED TO BE SUPPORTERS OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY WERE RATED AS MORE INTELLIGENT, ATTRACTIVE, HONEST, AND OF HIGHER SOCIAL CLASS THAN WERE THE FACES OF CANDIDATES JUDGED TO BE FROM THE LABOUR PARTY. THE FINDINGS WERE UNINFLUENCED BY THE POLITICAL ALLEGIANCES OF THE OBSERVERS. THE SECOND AIM WAS TO SEE IF ANY OF THE RATINGS OF CANDIDATES' FACES WOULD RELATE TO THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF VOTES SUBSEQUENTLY CAST FOR THEM IN THE ELECTION. PERHAPS BECAUSE THE ELECTION RESULTS WERE FAR LESS MARGINAL THAN EXPERT OPINION HAD EXPECTED, IN THAT THERE WAS A VERY STRONG VOTE SWING TO THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY, NONE OF THE RATINGS RELATED SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE NUMBERS OF VOTES CAST.

Our reactions to a stranger can often be influenced by the clothes he wears. In this study a male experimenter, whilst posing as a market researcher, dressed either smartly or untidily. Style of dress was found to have a significant influence upon the number of agreements from both
older and younger women to answer the interviewer's questions. Dress did not have a significant influence upon men and older individuals were more influenced by clothing than were the younger ones. The results of this study are believed to have implications for many kinds of interview
settings.

Decades of techno-economic energy policymaking and research have meant evidence from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)—including critical reflections on what changing a society's relation to energy (efficiency) even means—have been underutilised. In particular, (i) the SSH have too often been sidelined and/or narrowly pigeonholed by policymakers, funders, and other decision-makers when driving research agendas, and (ii) the setting of SSH-focused research agendas has not historically embedded inclusive and deliberative processes. The aim of this paper is to address these gaps through the production of a research agenda outlining future SSH research priorities for energy efficiency. A Horizon Scanning exercise was run, which sought to identify 100 priority SSH questions for energy efficiency research. This exercise included 152 researchers with prior SSH expertise on energy efficiency, who together spanned 62 (sub-)disciplines of SSH, 23 countries, and a full range of career stages. The resultant questions were inductively clustered into seven themes as follows: (1) Citizenship, engagement and knowledge exchange in relation to energy efficiency; (2) Energy efficiency in relation to equity, justice, poverty and vulnerability; (3) Energy efficiency in relation to everyday life and practices of energy consumption and production; (4) Framing, defining and measuring energy efficiency; (5) Governance, policy and political issues around energy efficiency; (6) Roles of economic systems, supply chains and financial mechanisms in improving energy efficiency; and (7) The interactions, unintended consequences and rebound effects of energy efficiency interventions. Given the consistent centrality of energy efficiency in policy programmes, this paper highlights that well-developed SSH approaches are ready to be mobilised to contribute to the development, and/or to understand the implications, of energy efficiency measures and governance solutions. Implicitly, it also emphasises the heterogeneity of SSH policy evidence ...