Strategic Interviewing to Detect Deception: Cues to Deception across Repeated Interviews.

ABSTRACT: Previous deception research on repeated interviews found that liars are not less consistent than truth tellers, presumably because liars use a "repeat strategy" to be consistent across interviews. The goal of this study was to design an interview procedure to overcome this strategy. Innocent participants (truth tellers) and guilty participants (liars) had to convince an interviewer that they had performed several innocent activities rather than committing a mock crime. The interview focused on the innocent activities (alibi), contained specific central and peripheral questions, and was repeated after 1 week without forewarning. Cognitive load was increased by asking participants to reply quickly. The liars' answers in replying to both central and peripheral questions were significantly les

SUBMITTER: Masip J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5088571 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature