Will get fooled again: Emotionally intelligent people are easily duped by high‐stakes deceivers

Abstract

Purpose. There is major disagreement about the existence of individual differences in deception detection or naturally gifted detection ‘wizards’ (see O'Sullivan & Ekman, 2004 vs. Bond & Uysal, 2007). This study aimed to elucidate the role of a specific, and seemingly relevant individual difference – emotional intelligence (EI) and its subcomponents – in detecting high‐stakes, emotional deception. Methods. Participants (N= 116) viewed a sample of 20 international videos of individuals emotionally pleading for the safe return of their missing family member, half of whom were responsible for the missing person's disappearance/murder. Participants judged whether the pleas were honest or deceptive, provided confidence ratings, reported the cues they utilized, and rated their emotional response to each plea. Results. EI was associated with overconfidence in assessing the sincerity of the pleas and greater self‐reported sympathetic feelings to deceptive targets (enhanced gullibility). Although total EI was not associated with discrimination of truths and lies, the ability to perceive and express emotion (a component of EI), specifically, was negatively related to detecting deceptive targets (lower sensitivity [d′]). Combined, these patterns contributed negatively to the ability to spot emotional lies. Conclusions. These findings collectively suggest that features of EI, and subsequent decision‐making processes, paradoxically may impair one's ability to detect deceit.

Does “lie to me” lie to you? An evaluation of facial clues to high-stakes deception

“…This is due to their greater sympathetic feelings to others [13]. Fourth, motivation also has a negative influence on deception detection accuracy, which is termed motivational impairment [14,15].…”

Особистісні Фактори Успішності Розпізнавання Усних Повідомлень З Прихованими Мисленнєвими Образами

“…Так, П. Екманом було відкрито та описано так звані мікровира-зи -короткі прояви істинної емоції на обличчі, успішність розпізнавання яких, як було емпірично доведено, корелює зі здібністю до розпізнавання лжі [19]. Оскіль-ки емоційний стан людини проявляється через характеристики мовлення, невер-бальну поведінку, вирази обличчя і таке інше, дослідниками, виходячи з цього, зазначається, що успішність розпізнавання лжі може бути пов'язана з соціаль-ною компетентністю [18], вмінням декодувати невербальні сигнали [18], емпа-тією [34] та іншими здібностями [23]. Є, тим не менш, підстави сподіватися, що розпізнавання емоцій можна вважати важливим компонентом розпізнавання лжі, оскільки збудження мозку синхронно відбивається на виразі обличчя [19], а отже може надавати ключ до розпізнавання лжі.…”

High-Stakes Deception Detection Based on Facial Expressions

“…These circumstances are termed high-stakes situations; for example, being interrogated by a police officer, defending oneself in a courtroom, or appealing for parole in front of a judge. To detect deceit in such high-stakes scenarios is even more demanding than in daily life, but people rarely have the capacity of being able to distinguish truth from lies because their judgment is easily biased [3]. Statistics show that the lie detection accuracy of untrained people is only slightly above chance [4].…”

“…(2) The collected database is the first that consists of high-stakes deception videos of real-world situations. (3) The proposed method is at the forefront of the automated analysis of videos displaying facial expressions in completely unconstrained environments. The rest of this paper is organized as follows.…”