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Deception Detection in Politics: Can Voters Tell When Politicians are Lying?
In this study, we investigate voters’ unaided perceptions of whether politicians are lying. We conduct an experiment in which participants attempt to uncover politicians’ dishonesty by watching videos of their speeches. We find that verbal cues (specifically, the amount of detail in the speech) and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8378529/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34456405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09747-1 |
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author | Mattes, Kyle Popova, Valeriia Evans, Jacqueline R. |
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description | In this study, we investigate voters’ unaided perceptions of whether politicians are lying. We conduct an experiment in which participants attempt to uncover politicians’ dishonesty by watching videos of their speeches. We find that verbal cues (specifically, the amount of detail in the speech) and general demeanor cues explain the success (failure) of veracity judgments far better than paraverbal and nonverbal cues. We also find evidence of a truth bias—people are more likely to judge statements to be true than false—despite the political setting, where voters might have been more skeptical. However, gender plays a deterministic role for veracity judgments in political context; female politicians are more likely to be judged as honest. |
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spelling | pubmed-83785292021-08-23 Deception Detection in Politics: Can Voters Tell When Politicians are Lying? Mattes, Kyle Popova, Valeriia Evans, Jacqueline R. Polit Behav Original Paper In this study, we investigate voters’ unaided perceptions of whether politicians are lying. We conduct an experiment in which participants attempt to uncover politicians’ dishonesty by watching videos of their speeches. We find that verbal cues (specifically, the amount of detail in the speech) and general demeanor cues explain the success (failure) of veracity judgments far better than paraverbal and nonverbal cues. We also find evidence of a truth bias—people are more likely to judge statements to be true than false—despite the political setting, where voters might have been more skeptical. However, gender plays a deterministic role for veracity judgments in political context; female politicians are more likely to be judged as honest. Springer US 2021-08-20 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC8378529/ /pubmed/34456405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09747-1 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Mattes, Kyle Popova, Valeriia Evans, Jacqueline R. Deception Detection in Politics: Can Voters Tell When Politicians are Lying? |
title | Deception Detection in Politics: Can Voters Tell When Politicians are Lying? |
title_full | Deception Detection in Politics: Can Voters Tell When Politicians are Lying? |
title_fullStr | Deception Detection in Politics: Can Voters Tell When Politicians are Lying? |
title_full_unstemmed | Deception Detection in Politics: Can Voters Tell When Politicians are Lying? |
title_short | Deception Detection in Politics: Can Voters Tell When Politicians are Lying? |
title_sort | deception detection in politics: can voters tell when politicians are lying? |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8378529/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34456405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09747-1 |
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