Dr Mircea Zloteanu
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- Department of Criminology and Social Sciences
- Department of Psychology
- School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Penrhyn Road
Senior Lecturer Criminology and Investigative Psychology
- Email:
- m.zloteanu@kingston.ac.uk
About
I am an experimental psychology researcher interested in emotions, decision-making, user behaviour in the Sharing Economy, and deception detection. My research focuses on the behavioural cues used to ascertain if people are being truthful or deceptive. My work involves investigating differences in judgements and perceptions made alone or in groups, embodied effects on attention and information processing, the impact of situational factors on accuracy and bias, the production of deceptive facial expressions, and improving forensic interviewing practices. Recently, my research focuses on meta-research and meta-psychology, with a focus on methods, statistics, and open science.
I am also a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a member of the American Psychological Association (APA)
I am also the Faculty Research Ethics Lead (FREL) for FBSS.
Qualifications
- PhD Experimental Psychology, University College London (UCL)
- MSc Social Cognition (Dist.), University College London (UCL)
- BSc (Hons) Psychology (1:1 First), Goldsmiths College London
- Fellow, Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
- BPS Chartered Psychologist
Domains
Qualifications
- Fellow Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
- Microsoft Certified Educator (MCE)
- Teaching in Higher Education – PGCE Certified – Centre for Advancing Learning and Teaching (CALT)
Courses taught
Current Projects
- Signal Detection Theory models for understanding Veracity Judgements
- Digital Identity: How Cultural Differences Shape the Sharing Economy.
- Digital Identity: Monetary Risk and Information Bias in Sharing Economy Interactions.
- Surprise: A Dynamic Expressions Database of Multiple Production Methods
- Staying with a Criminal: The Effect of Violent and Non-Violent Offender Host Profiles on User Behaviour in Sharing Economy Platforms.
- Deception Detection and Emotion Recognition: A Dual-Systems Approach.
- Morphologic and Dynamic Properties of Deliberate Expressions of Surprise - A machine learning approach.
Qualifications
- UKRN (Reproducibility Network) Local Lead - Kingston
- Freya Project Ambassador
- CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) Interest Group Member
- Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA) Member
- Center for Open Science (COS) Ambassador
Specialisms
- Deception Detection
- Facial Expressions and Emotions
- Group decision-making
- Veracity Judgements and Bias
- Sharing Economy and User Behaviour
Qualifications and Professional expertise
- Behavioural Consultant - BrainPool AI (London, UK)
- Academic Tutor - TheProfs, Ltd. (London, UK)
- Expert Consultant - BBC 50:50 Project
- Advisor for Digital Economy Outlook - OECD
Areas of interest
- UX, user engagement, digital identiy
- behavioural research and behavioural change
- data science and business science
- blockchain
Professional and scholarly affiliations
- American Psychological Association (APA) - Member
- UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) Local Lead
- Kingston Open Research Initiative (KORI) Co-Lead
- ReproducibiliTea Journal Club
- StatsTea - Statistics Seminar and Training for Staff and ECRs
- Faculty Research Ethics Lead (FREL) for FBSS
Publications
Where the ‘bad’ and the ‘good’ go : a multi-lab direct replication report of Casasanto (2009, experiment 1)
Yamada, Yuki, Xue, Jin, Li, Panpan, Ruiz Fernandez, Susana, Ozdogru, Asil Ali, Sarı, Şahsenem, Torres, Sergio C., Hinojosa, José A., Montoro, Pedro R., AlShebli, Bedoor, Bolatov, Aidos K., McGeechan, Grant J., Zloteanu, Mircea, Razpurker-Apfeld, Irene, Samekin, Adil, Tal-Or, Nurit, Tejada, Julian, Freitag, Raquel, Kathin-zadeh, Omid, Banaruee, Hassan, Robin, Nicolas, Briseño-Sanchez, Guillermo, Barrera-Causil, Carlos J. and Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando, 2024
A tutorial for deception detection analysis or : how I learned to stop aggregating veracity judgments and embraced signal detection theory mixed models
Zloteanu, Mircea and Vuorre, Matti, 2024, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
When Vegas comes to Wall Street : associations between stock price volatility and trading frequency among gamblers
Weiss-Cohen, Leonardo, Newall, Philip, Bart, Yakov, Zloteanu, Mircea, Peacey, Mike, Ayton, Peter and Clacher, Iain, 2024, International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
Uncertain veracity judgments : does the framing of the question influence deception detection?
Zloteanu, Mircea, 2023, Experimental Results (4), pp e8
Darwin's illegitimate children : how body language experts undermine Darwin's legacy
Denault, Vincent and Zloteanu, Mircea, 2022, Evolutionary Human Sciences
Looking guilty : handcuffing suspects influences judgements of deception
Zloteanu, Mircea, Salman, Nadine L., Krumhuber, Eva G. and Richardson, Daniel C., 2022, Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling (19), 3, pp 231-247
Judgments in the Sharing Economy : the effect of user-generated trust and reputation information on decision-making accuracy and bias
Zloteanu, Mircea, Harvey, Nigel, Tuckett, David and Livan, Giacomo, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology (12), pp 776999
Acting surprised : comparing perceptions of different dynamic deliberate expressions
Zloteanu, Mircea, Krumhuber, Eva G. and Richardson, Daniel C., 2021, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior (45), pp 169-185
Sitting in judgment : how body posture influences deception detection and gazing behavior
Zloteanu, Mircea, Krumhuber, Eva G. and Richardson, Daniel C., 2021, Behavioral Sciences (11), 6, pp 85
Veracity judgement, not accuracy : reconsidering the role of facial expressions, empathy, and emotion recognition training on deception detection
Zloteanu, Mircea, Bull, Peter, Krumhuber, Eva and Richardson, Daniel, 2021, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (74), 5, pp 910-927
Expression authenticity : the role of genuine and deliberate displays in emotion perception
Zloteanu, Mircea and Krumhuber, Eva, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology (11), pp 611248
Communication non verbale et détection du mensonge : une conversation entre trois jeunes chercheurs
Denault, Vincent, Delmas, Hugues and Zloteanu, Mircea, 2021, COMMposite (22), 1, pp 107-119
Distinct temporal features of genuine and deliberate facial expressions of surprise
Namba, Shushi, Matsui, Hiroshi and Zloteanu, Mircea, 2021, Scientific Reports (11), pp 3362
Jurors' expectations and decision-making : revisiting the CSI effect
Lodge, Chloe and Zloteanu, Mircea, 2020, The North of England Bulletin (2020), 2, pp 19-30
Digital identity : the effect of trust and reputation information on user judgement in the sharing economy
Zloteanu, Mircea, Harvey, Nigel, Tuckett, David and Livan, Giacomo, 2018, PLoS ONE (13), 12, pp e0209071
Detecting genuine and deliberate displays of surprise in static and dynamic faces
Zloteanu, Mircea, Krumhuber, Eva G. and Richardson, Daniel C., 2018, Frontiers in Psychology (9), 1184
Reconsidering facial expressions and deception detection
Zloteanu, Mircea (2020). In: Freitas-Magalhaes, A., (eds.) and Borod, Joan, (eds.), Handbook of Facial Expression of Emotion. Porto, Portugal: FEELab Science Books, pp 238-283
The role of emotions in detecting deception
Zloteanu, Mircea (2015). In: Williams, Emma, (eds.) and Sheeha, Iman, (eds.), Deception : an interdisciplinary exploration. Oxford, U.K.: Brill, pp 203-217
The impact of true crime podcasts and television engagement on anxiety, fear, and perceptions of the English and Welsh criminal justice system
Bullock, Josh and Zloteanu, Mircea(2024). In: 24th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology: Criminology Goes East, 11-14 Sep 2024 :Bucharest, Romania
Veracity judgements : reinterpreting the processes behind "deception detection"
Zloteanu, Mircea(2023). In: Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) 2023, 9 - 12 Aug 2023 :Nagoya, Japan
Veracity judgements : reinterpreting the processes behind "deception detection"
Zloteanu, Mircea(2023). In: Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL) 2023, 04 - 07 Jul 2023 :Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Misinformation about evolution and nonverbal behaviour : how body language experts undermine global scientific efforts
Vincent, Denault and Zloteanu, Mircea(2023). In: EHBEA 2023: Annual Conference for the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association, 18 - 21 Apr 2023 :London, U.K.
Looking guilty : handcuffing suspects influences judgements of deception
Zloteanu, Mircea(2023). In: Surrey Police Evidence-Based Policing Conference, 17 Apr 2023 :Guilford, U.K.
Emotions and facial expressions : theoretical, operational, methodological, and statistical considerations for modern open research
Zloteanu, Mircea(2023). In: SAS 2023 Conference, 30 Mar - 1 Apr 2023 :Long Beach, U.S.
Deception detection research in an open science world : improving methodology, statistical analyses, and reproducibility
Zloteanu, Mircea(2023). In: Deception Research Society : Lies and Allies Tuesdays (Deception Research Methodology Panel), 07 Feb 2023 :Held online
Stop aggregating veracity judgements! The benefits and necessity of proper data analysis
Zloteanu, Mircea(2022). In: Decepticon 2022, 17-18 Oct 2022 :Held online
Individual differences affecting dynamic emotion authenticity perception
Zloteanu, Mircea, Felisberti, Fatima and Kulke, Louisa(2022). In: ISRE 2022 : Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion, 15-18 Jul 2022 :University of Southern California, Los Angeles, U.S.
The importance of posed facial expression production and presentation method on authenticity discrimination
Zloteanu, Mircea, Krumhuber, Eva and Richardson, Daniel(2019). In: ISRE 2019, 10-13 Jul 2019 :Amsterdam, Netherlands
Emotions and deception detection
Zloteanu, Mircea (2017), PhD thesis, University College London