“…However, almost no study has focused on officers' processes in detecting deception, that is, the mechanisms and strategies they use to assess veracity. The findings of the few extant studies (Masip, Garrido, Herrero, Antón, & Alonso, ; Nahari, ; Reinhard, Dahm, & Scharmach, ) are limited because of being laboratory‐based, thus providing only behavioral—and not contextual—information to observers. In this study, officers were questioned about real lies they detected in real life.…”