Baseline familiarity in lie detection

Feeley, Thomas Hugh; deTurck, Mark A.; Young, Melissa J.

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“…As argued below, officers' poor performance calls for the implementation of training programmes. Third, deception researchers have indeed examined the influence of several kinds of familiarity on the detection of deceit; for example, familiarity with the sender's truthful behaviour (e.g., Feeley, deTurck , & Young, 1995) and intimacy level or relational development (e.g., Stiff et al, 1992). However, to the present authors' knowledge no study has yet been published examining the detection of deception across different occupational groups.…”

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Police officers' credibility judgments: Accuracy and estimated ability

2004

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A study was conducted to examine Spanish police officers' and nonofficers' lie-and truth-detection accuracy, as well as their estimated detection ability. The participants were 121 police officers and 146 undergraduates who watched videotaped truthful and deceptive statements. They had to indicate: (1) whether each statement was truthful or deceptive, and (2) how good police officers were, in comparison with the general population, at detecting the truthfulness or deceptiveness of a statement. Results indicate that police officers' accuracy was not higher than that of nonofficers, rather, while the officers reached an accuracy rate close to chance probability, the undergraduates surpassed that probability. Officers had a very strong tendency to judge the statements as deceptive; this made them less accurate than the students in judging the truthful accounts, while both groups reached a similar accuracy when judging the deceptive ones. Both occupational samples considered that the police are more capable of identifying truths and lies than the general population. However, this belief was stronger among the officers themselves than among the nonofficers. No significant correlation between estimated ability and accuracy was found for either sample. The results are explained in terms of the participants' wrong beliefs about the cues to deceit and the socialization process that police officers undergo, which would increase their confidence and perceived ability while hindering their learning of the actual indicators of deceit. The need for officers to receive training is emphasized, and some directions are given on how this training should be carried out. ' L objectif visé par cette étude était d'examiner l'habileté de policiers et de non-policiers espagnols à détecter avec exactitude les déclarations véridiques et fausses, ainsi que leur estimation de leur habileté de détection. Les participants étaient 121 policiers et 146 étudiants universitaires dont la tâ che consistait à visionner un enregistrement vidéo présentant des déclarations véridiques et des fausses. Ils devaient indiquer: (1) si chaque déclaration était vraie ou fausse et (2) la capacité des policiers à détecter la véridicité ou le mensonge dans une déclaration, en comparaison avec la population générale. Les résultats indiquent que l'exactitude des policiers n'était pas plus élevée que celle des non-policiers, même que, tandis que les policiers ont atteint un taux d'exactitude près de celui pouvant être obtenu en fonction du hasard, les étudiants universitaires ont surpassé cette probabilité. D'une part, les policiers ont montré une forte tendance à juger les déclarations comme mensongères; ceci fait en sorte qu'ils sont moins exacts que les étudiants pour juger les déclarations véridiques. D'autre part, les deux groupes ont atteint une exactitude similaire dans le jugement des fausses déclarations. Par ailleurs, les deux groupes ont considéré que les policiers ont une meilleure capacité pour identifier les vérités et les mensonges que la population gé...

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Police officers' credibility judgments: Accuracy and estimated ability

2004

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“…Köhnken (1987) also argued that an interviewer's familiarity with the behavior of the sender would grow as a function of time. Increases in informational familiarity have been shown to have a positive effect on accuracy (e.g., Zuckerman, Koestner, & Alton, 1984;Feeley, deTurck, & Young, 1995). Therefore, from this perspective, it may be predicted that the later observers make their decision, the higher their accuracy will be.…”

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Heuristic versus Systematic Processing of Information in Detecting Deception: Questioning the Truth Bias

2009

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Research on nonverbal detection of deception has normally been conducted by asking observers to judge the veracity of a number of videotaped communications. These video clips have typically been very short. Observers have a tendency to judge most of these statements as truthful. An experiment was conducted in which 52 participants (44 women, 8 men; M age = 22.2 yr., SD = 2.2) who were taking a psychology and law course were requested to make judgments of credibility at different points of the senders' statements. A strong truth bias was apparent when judgments were made at the beginning of the statements, suggesting that when exposed to brief communications, the observers make heuristic judgments. Over time, a decrease in the truth bias and an increase in overall accuracy were found, suggesting that later judgments were increasingly based on systematic information processing. These results suggest that the truth bias that has been found in previous deception research may be a result of having used very brief and uninformative behavioral samples as stimuli.

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“…Much of this research relates to familiarity acquired in intimate relationships, such as between close friends (Millar and Millar 1995;Buller, Strzyzewski, and Comstock 1991;Comadena 1982) or between a husband and a wife (Stiff et al 1992), suggesting that it may not have applicability to interviews. Perhaps more relevant are studies by Brandt et al (1980Brandt et al ( , 1982 and Feeley et al (1995), who find that deception detectors are better able to detect a person's deceptions after just a few exposures to a person's truth telling. For instance, Feeley et al (1995) videotaped a stranger as he told truths and then had deception detectors view the videotape either zero times, two times, or four times.…”

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“…Perhaps more relevant are studies by Brandt et al (1980Brandt et al ( , 1982 and Feeley et al (1995), who find that deception detectors are better able to detect a person's deceptions after just a few exposures to a person's truth telling. For instance, Feeley et al (1995) videotaped a stranger as he told truths and then had deception detectors view the videotape either zero times, two times, or four times. Each study found that additional exposures to the stranger's truth telling increased deception-detection accuracy.…”

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Prior Exposure to Interviewee's Truth-Telling (Baselining) and Deception-Detection Accuracy in Interviews

Lee

Welker²

2011

Behavioral Research in Accounting

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Professional accounting guidance recommends that interviewers attend to deception detection in audit interviews. Prior studies suggest that interviewers are poor detectors of a stranger's deceptions. This study assesses whether behavioral baselining (acquiring familiarity with truth-telling style prior to initiating an interview of an unfamiliar interviewee), a recommended procedure for investigative interviews, improves the ability to detect the deceptions of an unfamiliar interviewee in accounting interviews. In the present study, interviewers conducted five preliminary interviews of a truth-telling interviewee prior to the focal accounting interview. This exposure to the interviewee's truth telling increased the accuracy of detecting truths as opposed to lies, suggesting that behavioral baselining of truth telling aided the detection of primarily truth telling. These findings suggest that behavioral baselining may not facilitate the auditor's objective, that is, the detection of lies.

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Baseline familiarity in lie detection

Cited by 44 publications

References 29 publications

Police officers' credibility judgments: Accuracy and estimated ability

Police officers' credibility judgments: Accuracy and estimated ability

Heuristic versus Systematic Processing of Information in Detecting Deception: Questioning the Truth Bias

Prior Exposure to Interviewee's Truth-Telling (Baselining) and Deception-Detection Accuracy in Interviews

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