Department of Psychological, State Scientific Research Forensic Center of The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Research Article
Analysis of Psychological Signs of Authenticity when Reproducing Events by the Researched Person in Criminal Proceedings
Author(s): Nataliia Tereshkevych*
This article considers some aspects of the psychological assessment of the testimony reliability in the practice of
conducting analysis of the narrative by forensic psychologists. The article discusses some of the signs of authenticity
from the general list in the Technique for psychological assessment of the testimony reliability in legal practice of
Shapovalov V. A. The author studied 19 transcripts of actual investigative actions that were divided into two groups:
conditionally reliable (true) and conditionally unreliable (false). This two group of the transcripts were analyzed
according to the presence or absence of the following signs of the reliability of the narrative: visual information;
auditory information; information related to smells; information related to tastes; physical sensations; description
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