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The effect of statement type and repetition on deception detection
BACKGROUND: Deception is a prevalent component of human interaction. However, meta-analyses suggest that discriminating between truthful and deceptive statements is a very arduous task and accuracy on these judgments is at chance levels. To complicate matters further, individuals tell different type...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6757075/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31549260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-019-0194-z |
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author | Cash, Daniella K. Dianiska, Rachel E. Lane, Sean M. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Deception is a prevalent component of human interaction. However, meta-analyses suggest that discriminating between truthful and deceptive statements is a very arduous task and accuracy on these judgments is at chance levels. To complicate matters further, individuals tell different types of lies. The current studies examined how an individual’s ability to accurately discriminate between truthful and deceptive statements is affected by the way truths and lies are conveyed. Participants judged the veracity of statements given by speakers who told truths or lies about a performed action by describing that action or denying that it had occurred. Additionally, these statements also differed with regard to how often the lie had been repeated (i.e., practiced), either once or thrice. RESULTS: The results were largely in line with the prevailing notion that it is difficult to successfully differentiate between truthful and deceptive statements, but also showed that performance was moderated by statement type and repetition. The results revealed that participants were more accurate in discriminating unrepeated descriptions than repeated descriptions, but this difference was not seen for denial statements. Additionally, participants were more likely to believe practiced (repeated) statements, both truthful and deceptive. CONCLUSION: The results show that repeated statements as well as shorter denials can increase the difficulty of differentiating truthful from deceptive statements. Additionally, these findings suggest that truthful statements also benefit from repetition with regard to enhancing their believability. |
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spelling | pubmed-67570752019-10-07 The effect of statement type and repetition on deception detection Cash, Daniella K. Dianiska, Rachel E. Lane, Sean M. Cogn Res Princ Implic Original Article BACKGROUND: Deception is a prevalent component of human interaction. However, meta-analyses suggest that discriminating between truthful and deceptive statements is a very arduous task and accuracy on these judgments is at chance levels. To complicate matters further, individuals tell different types of lies. The current studies examined how an individual’s ability to accurately discriminate between truthful and deceptive statements is affected by the way truths and lies are conveyed. Participants judged the veracity of statements given by speakers who told truths or lies about a performed action by describing that action or denying that it had occurred. Additionally, these statements also differed with regard to how often the lie had been repeated (i.e., practiced), either once or thrice. RESULTS: The results were largely in line with the prevailing notion that it is difficult to successfully differentiate between truthful and deceptive statements, but also showed that performance was moderated by statement type and repetition. The results revealed that participants were more accurate in discriminating unrepeated descriptions than repeated descriptions, but this difference was not seen for denial statements. Additionally, participants were more likely to believe practiced (repeated) statements, both truthful and deceptive. CONCLUSION: The results show that repeated statements as well as shorter denials can increase the difficulty of differentiating truthful from deceptive statements. Additionally, these findings suggest that truthful statements also benefit from repetition with regard to enhancing their believability. Springer International Publishing 2019-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6757075/ /pubmed/31549260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-019-0194-z Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Cash, Daniella K. Dianiska, Rachel E. Lane, Sean M. The effect of statement type and repetition on deception detection |
title | The effect of statement type and repetition on deception detection |
title_full | The effect of statement type and repetition on deception detection |
title_fullStr | The effect of statement type and repetition on deception detection |
title_full_unstemmed | The effect of statement type and repetition on deception detection |
title_short | The effect of statement type and repetition on deception detection |
title_sort | effect of statement type and repetition on deception detection |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6757075/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31549260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-019-0194-z |
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