Self‐Reported Beliefs About Verbal Cues Correlate with Deception‐Detection Performance

Bogaard, Glynis; Meijer, Ewout H.

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“…Establishing the effect of changing interviewers on statement consistency is important, considering how many people interview individuals being processed through the criminal justice system (e.g. investigators, lawyers, psychologists), and who operate with the belief that consistency is indicative of honesty (Bogaard & Meijer, 2017). A better examination of the effect of this would be to compare changing or maintaining interviewers when interviewees are providing longer statements for personally experienced episodic events, as would likely be found in the criminal justice system.…”

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“…Considering the number of individuals who work within the criminal justice system, and operate under the belief that consistency is indicative of honesty Bogaard & Meijer, 2017), examining the statement consistency for truthful and deceptive suspects is important to help practitioners make informed veracity judgements. In the current study, we investigated the influence of recall order and a change in interviewer on the within-statement consistency of both truth tellers and liars.…”

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The devil is in the detail: deception and consistency over repeated interviews

Hudson

Vrij

Akehurst

et al. 2019

Psychology, Crime & Law

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Word count: 200Research indicates that truthful statements typically contain more details than fabricated statements, and that truth tellers are no more consistent than liars over multiple interviews. In this experiment, we examine the impact of (i) multiple interviewers and (ii) reverse order recall on liars' and truth tellers' consistency and amount of reported detail over repeated recall attempts. Participants either took part in a mock crime (lying condition) or an innocent event (truth telling condition) which they were subsequently interviewed about in two separate interview phases. Truth tellers provided more details overall, and more reminiscent details than liars. There were no differences between veracity groups for the number of omissions made or repetitions reported. Despite the popular belief that inconsistency is a cue to deception, we found little support for the notion that consistency (or lack of consistency) offers a diagnostic cue to deception. We found little evidence that switching interviewer or recalling in reverse order induced inconsistencies in liars. In fact, due to the number of reminiscent details in truth tellers' accounts, our findings suggest that accounts provided by liars tend to be slightly more consistent than those provided by truth tellers. The materials for this paper can be found at osf.io/hgvmk/. Keywords (5): consistency, detecting deception, investigative interviewing, lying, reverse order recall DECEPTION AND CONSISTENCY OVER REPEATED INTERVIEWS 3The devil is in the detail: Deception and consistency over repeated interviews.Research has consistently shown that people are relatively poor at recognising when someone is lying (Hartwig et al., 2011; ten Brinke, Vohs, & Carney, 2016). Meta-analyses reveal that humans' ability to detect deception rarely exceeds chance (Bond & DePaulo, 2006), and that there is little difference in accuracy between laypeople and practitioners who work in fields where attempts to deceive are commonplace (Aamodt & Custer 2006;Bond & DePaulo, 2006). Even when investigators are trained to look for cues to deception, only a small to medium training effect for accuracy in distinguishing between truth tellers and liars is found with the largest effect sizes found for training that focuses on verbal content (Hauch, Sporer, Michael, & Meissner, 2016). Given people's poor ability to differentiate between truth tellers and liars, researchers have been working towards developing interviewing techniques designed to increase the differences in verbal cues between truth tellers and liars (e.g. Strategic Use of Evidence,

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The devil is in the detail: deception and consistency over repeated interviews

Hudson

Vrij

Akehurst

et al. 2019

Psychology, Crime & Law

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“…In fact, a recent study by Luke ( 2019 ) suggests that there is currently insufficient information in the literature to conclude the existence of any reliable behavioral cue to deception. Yet, gaze aversion and body movements remain pervasive stereotypes of cues to deception, held even by presumed expert lie detectors such as police officers, customs officers, prosecutors, and judges (Akehurst et al, 1996 ; Bogaard & Meijer, 2018 ; Bogaard et al, 2016 ; Delmas et al, 2019 ; Dickens & Curtis, 2019 ; Strömwall & Granhag, 2003 ; Vrij & Semin, 1996 ; Vrij et al, 2006 ).…”

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Autistic Adults May Be Erroneously Perceived as Deceptive and Lacking Credibility

Lim

Young

Brewer

2021

J Autism Dev Disord

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We hypothesized that autistic adults may be erroneously judged as deceptive or lacking credibility due to demonstrating unexpected and atypical behaviors. Thirty autistic and 29 neurotypical individuals participated in video-recorded interviews, and we measured their demonstration of gaze aversion, repetitive body movements, literal interpretation of figurative language, poor reciprocity, and flat affect. Participants (N = 1410) viewed one of these videos and rated their perception of the individual’s truthfulness or credibility. The hypothesis was partially supported, with autistic individuals perceived as more deceptive and less credible than neurotypical individuals when telling the truth. However, this relationship was not influenced by the presence of any of the target behaviors, but instead, by the individual’s overall presentation.

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“…We would expect, then, that police officers (presumed deception detection experts) and laypersons (presumed deception detection novices) would differ in terms of their knowledge about deceivers. Yet both groups have reported similar stereotypes about lie-tellers (e.g., Akehurst et al, 1996;Bogaard & Meijer, 2018;Bogaard et al, 2016;Delmas et al, 2019), leading some researchers to question whether the cues that trained professionals often use merely codify common sense (Masip, Herrero, Garrido, & Barba, 2011). It was not clear whether this pattern would replicate when deceivers were nonnative speakers.…”

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Looks like a liar? Beliefs about native and non‐native speakers' deception

Leach

Silva

Connors

et al. 2019

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Summary We examined whether observers' beliefs about deception were affected by a speaker's language proficiency. Laypersons (N = 105) and police officers (N = 75) indicated which nonverbal and verbal behaviors were predictive of native versus non‐native speakers' deception. In addition, they provided their beliefs about these speakers' interrogation experiences. Participants believed that native and non‐native speakers would exhibit the same cues to deception. However, they did predict that non‐native speakers would likely face several challenges during interrogations (e.g., longer interrogations and difficulties understanding the interrogator's questions). Police officers and laypersons also differed in their beliefs about cues to deception and interrogation experiences.

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Self‐Reported Beliefs About Verbal Cues Correlate with Deception‐Detection Performance

Cited by 14 publications

References 45 publications

The devil is in the detail: deception and consistency over repeated interviews

The devil is in the detail: deception and consistency over repeated interviews

Autistic Adults May Be Erroneously Perceived as Deceptive and Lacking Credibility

Looks like a liar? Beliefs about native and non‐native speakers' deception

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