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Cross cultural verbal cues to deception: truth and lies in first and second language forensic interview contexts

INTRODUCTION: The verbal deception literature is largely based upon North American and Western European monolingual English speaker interactions. This paper extends this literature by comparing the verbal behaviors of 88 south Asian bilinguals, conversing in either first (Hindi) or second (English)...

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Autores principales: Dando, Coral J., Taylor, Paul J., Sandham, Alexandra L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10267829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37325746
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1152904
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description INTRODUCTION: The verbal deception literature is largely based upon North American and Western European monolingual English speaker interactions. This paper extends this literature by comparing the verbal behaviors of 88 south Asian bilinguals, conversing in either first (Hindi) or second (English) languages, and 48 British monolinguals conversing in English. METHODS: All participated in a live event following which they were interviewed having been incentivized to be either deceptive or truthful. Event details, complications, verifiable sources, and plausibility ratings were analyzed as a function of veracity, language and culture. RESULTS: Main effects revealed cross cultural similarities in both first and second language interviews whereby all liar’s verbal responses were impoverished and rated as less plausible than truthtellers. However, a series of cross-cultural interactions emerged whereby bi-lingual South Asian truthtellers and liars interviewed in first and second languages exhibited varying patterns of verbal behaviors, differences that have the potential to trigger erroneous assessments in practice. DISCUSSION: Despite limitations, including concerns centered on the reductionary nature of deception research, our results highlight that while cultural context is important, impoverished, simple verbal accounts should trigger a ‘red flag’ for further attention irrespective of culture or interview language, since the cognitive load typically associated with formulating a deceptive account apparently emerges in a broadly similar manner.
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spelling pubmed-102678292023-06-15 Cross cultural verbal cues to deception: truth and lies in first and second language forensic interview contexts Dando, Coral J. Taylor, Paul J. Sandham, Alexandra L. Front Psychol Psychology INTRODUCTION: The verbal deception literature is largely based upon North American and Western European monolingual English speaker interactions. This paper extends this literature by comparing the verbal behaviors of 88 south Asian bilinguals, conversing in either first (Hindi) or second (English) languages, and 48 British monolinguals conversing in English. METHODS: All participated in a live event following which they were interviewed having been incentivized to be either deceptive or truthful. Event details, complications, verifiable sources, and plausibility ratings were analyzed as a function of veracity, language and culture. RESULTS: Main effects revealed cross cultural similarities in both first and second language interviews whereby all liar’s verbal responses were impoverished and rated as less plausible than truthtellers. However, a series of cross-cultural interactions emerged whereby bi-lingual South Asian truthtellers and liars interviewed in first and second languages exhibited varying patterns of verbal behaviors, differences that have the potential to trigger erroneous assessments in practice. DISCUSSION: Despite limitations, including concerns centered on the reductionary nature of deception research, our results highlight that while cultural context is important, impoverished, simple verbal accounts should trigger a ‘red flag’ for further attention irrespective of culture or interview language, since the cognitive load typically associated with formulating a deceptive account apparently emerges in a broadly similar manner. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10267829/ /pubmed/37325746 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1152904 Text en Copyright © 2023 Dando, Taylor and Sandham. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Sandham, Alexandra L.
Cross cultural verbal cues to deception: truth and lies in first and second language forensic interview contexts
title Cross cultural verbal cues to deception: truth and lies in first and second language forensic interview contexts
title_full Cross cultural verbal cues to deception: truth and lies in first and second language forensic interview contexts
title_fullStr Cross cultural verbal cues to deception: truth and lies in first and second language forensic interview contexts
title_full_unstemmed Cross cultural verbal cues to deception: truth and lies in first and second language forensic interview contexts
title_short Cross cultural verbal cues to deception: truth and lies in first and second language forensic interview contexts
title_sort cross cultural verbal cues to deception: truth and lies in first and second language forensic interview contexts
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10267829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37325746
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1152904
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