Dr. Charles Honts is a Professor with the Department of Psychology. He earned his
Ph.D. in Psychology in 1986 from the University of Utah. Since coming to Boise State in
1995, Dr. Honts’ research interests have involved scientific credibility assessment with
adults and children, specifically the psychophysiological detection of deception. Other
interests include quantitative methods, jury behavior, and the area of psychology and the
law. A prolific author, Dr. Honts has published in the Journal of Police and Criminal
Psychology, Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, and Legal and Criminological
Psychology. Additionally, he has served as a reviewer for a variety of publications and
in 1996 founded the Journal of Credibility Assessment and Witness Psychology. In 2007 Dr.
Honts received a $299,537 grant from the Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment for a
project titled, Effects of Comparison Question Type and Between Test Stimulation on the
Validity of the Comparison Question Test.

Presentations

A New Paradigm for the Study of Deception Detection at Portals (with Flavia A. Pitman, James V. Pitman, Scott T. McBride, Adela B. Anderson, and Ashley K. Christiansen), Association for Psychological Science Annual Meeting (2008)
We report the results of a new paradigm to study deception detection in portal settings....
 

The Incomprehensibility of Judicial Instructions and Subsequent Jury Decisions (with Ashley Christiansen), Off the Witness Stand: Using Psychology in the Practice of Justice (2007)
The present study examined one opportunity for jury error in capital trials. We measured participants’...