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Detecting Concealed Information from Groups Using a Dynamic Questioning Approach: Simultaneous Skin Conductance Measurement and Immediate Feedback
Lie detection procedures typically aim at determining the guilt or innocence of a single suspect. The Concealed Information Test (CIT), for example, has been shown to be highly successful in detecting the presence or absence of crime-related information in a suspect’s memory. Many of today’s securit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3573182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23423957 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00068 |
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author | Meijer, Ewout H. Bente, Gary Ben-Shakhar, Gershon Schumacher, Andreas |
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description | Lie detection procedures typically aim at determining the guilt or innocence of a single suspect. The Concealed Information Test (CIT), for example, has been shown to be highly successful in detecting the presence or absence of crime-related information in a suspect’s memory. Many of today’s security threats, however, do not come from individuals, but from organized groups such as criminal organizations or terrorist networks. In this study, we tested whether a plan of an upcoming mock terrorist attack could be extracted from a group of suspects using a dynamic questioning approach. One-hundred participants were tested in 20 groups of 5. Each group was asked to plan a mock terrorist attack based on a list of potential countries, cities, and streets. Next, three questions referring to the country, city, and street were presented, each with five options. Skin conductance in all five members of the group was measured simultaneously during this presentation. The dynamic questioning approach entailed direct analysis of the data, and if the average skin conductance of the group to a certain option exceeded a threshold, this option was followed up, e.g., if the reaction to the option “Italy” exceeded the threshold, this was followed up by presenting five cities in Italy. Results showed that in 19 of the 20 groups the country was correctly detected using this procedure. In 13 of these remaining 19 groups the city was correctly detected. In 7 of these 13, the street was also correctly detected. The question about the country resulted in no false positives (out of 20), the question about the city resulted in two false positives (out of 19), while the question about the streets resulted in two false positives (out of 13). Furthermore, the two false positives at the city level also yielded a false positive at the street level. Even though effect sizes were only moderate, these results indicate that our dynamic questioning approach can help to unveil plans about a mock terrorist attack. |
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spelling | pubmed-35731822013-02-19 Detecting Concealed Information from Groups Using a Dynamic Questioning Approach: Simultaneous Skin Conductance Measurement and Immediate Feedback Meijer, Ewout H. Bente, Gary Ben-Shakhar, Gershon Schumacher, Andreas Front Psychol Psychology Lie detection procedures typically aim at determining the guilt or innocence of a single suspect. The Concealed Information Test (CIT), for example, has been shown to be highly successful in detecting the presence or absence of crime-related information in a suspect’s memory. Many of today’s security threats, however, do not come from individuals, but from organized groups such as criminal organizations or terrorist networks. In this study, we tested whether a plan of an upcoming mock terrorist attack could be extracted from a group of suspects using a dynamic questioning approach. One-hundred participants were tested in 20 groups of 5. Each group was asked to plan a mock terrorist attack based on a list of potential countries, cities, and streets. Next, three questions referring to the country, city, and street were presented, each with five options. Skin conductance in all five members of the group was measured simultaneously during this presentation. The dynamic questioning approach entailed direct analysis of the data, and if the average skin conductance of the group to a certain option exceeded a threshold, this option was followed up, e.g., if the reaction to the option “Italy” exceeded the threshold, this was followed up by presenting five cities in Italy. Results showed that in 19 of the 20 groups the country was correctly detected using this procedure. In 13 of these remaining 19 groups the city was correctly detected. In 7 of these 13, the street was also correctly detected. The question about the country resulted in no false positives (out of 20), the question about the city resulted in two false positives (out of 19), while the question about the streets resulted in two false positives (out of 13). Furthermore, the two false positives at the city level also yielded a false positive at the street level. Even though effect sizes were only moderate, these results indicate that our dynamic questioning approach can help to unveil plans about a mock terrorist attack. Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3573182/ /pubmed/23423957 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00068 Text en Copyright © 2013 Meijer, Bente, Ben-Shakhar and Schumacher. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and subject to any copyright notices concerning any third-party graphics etc. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Meijer, Ewout H. Bente, Gary Ben-Shakhar, Gershon Schumacher, Andreas Detecting Concealed Information from Groups Using a Dynamic Questioning Approach: Simultaneous Skin Conductance Measurement and Immediate Feedback |
title | Detecting Concealed Information from Groups Using a Dynamic Questioning Approach: Simultaneous Skin Conductance Measurement and Immediate Feedback |
title_full | Detecting Concealed Information from Groups Using a Dynamic Questioning Approach: Simultaneous Skin Conductance Measurement and Immediate Feedback |
title_fullStr | Detecting Concealed Information from Groups Using a Dynamic Questioning Approach: Simultaneous Skin Conductance Measurement and Immediate Feedback |
title_full_unstemmed | Detecting Concealed Information from Groups Using a Dynamic Questioning Approach: Simultaneous Skin Conductance Measurement and Immediate Feedback |
title_short | Detecting Concealed Information from Groups Using a Dynamic Questioning Approach: Simultaneous Skin Conductance Measurement and Immediate Feedback |
title_sort | detecting concealed information from groups using a dynamic questioning approach: simultaneous skin conductance measurement and immediate feedback |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3573182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23423957 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00068 |
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