Technology, Law, & Miscommunication

Hi there.

I'm an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University (the Netherlands). I am the recipient of a Starter Grant funded by the Dutch Government with which we study the place of AI in the Criminal Justice System.

My main work focuses around miscommunication. My dissertation allowed me to study deceptive (linguistic) behavior from a natural language processing (NLP) perspective. Since then, I have expanded my interests to the use of technology to foster (mis)communication, from studies attempting to understand why we believe in conspiracy theories, how AI is used in the criminal justice system, or how it can be leveraged to counter misinformative content.

I have trained multiple field actors on matters of deception and critical thinking, such as the French army, the French and Swiss police, insurance companies, or human resources.

Latest publications

Sarkki, P., Tomas, F., & Antheunis, M. (2026). Artificial intelligence in the criminal justice system: A systematic literature review and a research agenda. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlcj.2026.100900

Tomas, F., & Satchell, L. (2026). The Future of Verbal Baselining: A Three-Step Approach. In N. Shortland & L. Alison (Eds), Big Ideas in Forensic Psychology: Visions of a forensic future from leading voices in the field. Wiley.

Kolinsky, R., Arnal, C., Tomas, F., Morais, J., & Klein, O. (2026). What Makes Us (Non-)WEIRD?. In Linguística e transformação social: um tributo a Marcus Maia. Pontes.

Fernandes, M., Jonauskaite, D., Belucci, M., Leclerc, L., Murgia, A., Tomas, F., & Mohr, C. (2026). Lying detection performances and beliefs in different groups of professionals. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-026-09851-0

Latest communications

Sarkki, P., Tomas, F., & Antheunis, M. (2026). Artificial Intelligence in Corrections: A Critical Review. European Association of Psychology and Law 2026, Bari, Italy.

Buchanan, T., Karki, S. S., Burger, K., Jeyomohan, N., & Tomas, F. (2026). Hey Google, sell my data! Learning about the privacy implications of AI voice assistants influences our attitudes and intentions to use them. Cyberpsychology Section Annual Conference 2026, York, The United Kingdom.

Sarkki, P., Tomas, F., & Antheunis, M. (2025). Systematic Literature Review on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Criminal Justice System. Paper presented at the European Association of Psychology and Law conference, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Sancar, I., Bollici, G., den Boer, R., Backus, A., Braun, N., Goudbeek, M., & Tomas, F. (2025). Ik ben depressief, estoy deprimid@, depresyondayım: Investigating the language of depression in a new multilingual spoken corpus. Paper presented at the Etmaal 2025 conference, Brugge, Belgium.

Sarkki, P., Tomas, F., & Antheunis, M. (2025). Systematic Literature Review on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Criminal Justice System. Paper presented at the Etmaal 2025 conference, Brugge, Belgium.

Tomas, F., Wortel, C., & Vanwesenbeeck, I. (2025). Artificial Intelligence Disclosure Affects Consumers' Attitudes and Behavior Towards Instagram Advertising. Poster presented at the Etmaal 2025 conference, Brugge, Belgium.

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