Language and deception

Hi, I'm Frédéric Tomas.

I'm an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University (the Netherlands). I am also the founder of the AICrim Lab, a scientific lab funded by the Dutch Government where we study the place of AI in the Criminal Justice System.

My main work focuses around deception and its perception. I am also interested in credibility assessment, and anything related to linguistics, communication, and psychology. I have for instance been working on conspiracy theories and deceptive influencer marketing. Other colleagues have said that I focus on communication situations where things do not go as planned, which is a definition I abide to.

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

Backus, A., Cohen, M., Cohn, N., Faber, M., Krahmer, E., Laparle, S., Maier, E., van Miltenburg, E., Roelofsen, F., Sciubba, E., Scholman, M., Shterionov, D., Sie, M., Tomas, F., Vanmassenhove, E., Venhuizen, N., & de Vos, C. (2023). MINDS: big questions for linguistics in the age of AI. Linguistics in the Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.00094.bac 

van Miltenburg, E., Braggaar, A., Braun, N., Damen, D., van der Lee, C., Tomas, F., & Krahmer, E. (2023). How reproducible is best-worst scaling for human evaluation? A reproduction of ‘Data-to-text Generation with Macro Planning’. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems.

Altay, S., Nera, K., Ejaz,  W., Schöpfer, C. & Tomas, F. (2023) Conspiracy Believers Underuse Social Information (Like Everyone Else). British Journal of Social Psychology.

Latest communications

Wortel, C., Vanwesenbeeck, I., & Tomas, F. (2023). Made with AI. The Effect of Artificial Intelligence Disclosure Cues in Instagram Ads on Consumer Attitudes. Paper presented at the 2024 Etmaal Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Tomas, F., & van der Zanden, T. (2023). There Are Layers to Liars: A Systematic Review of Online Dating Deception. Paper presented at the 2023 ICA Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Tomas, F., de Bont, K., & Vanwesenbeeck, I. (2023). Influencer Endorsements: How Perceived Deception and Perceived Similarity Affect the Source Credibility of Product Reviews by Influencers. Paper presented at the 2023 ICA Conference, Toronto, Canada.