Accuracy, Confidence, and Experiential Criteria for Lie Detection Through a Videotaped Interview.

ABSTRACT: An individual's ability to discriminate lies from truth is far from accurate, and is poorly related to an individual's confidence in his/her detection. Both law enforcement and non-professional interviewers base their evaluations of truthfulness on experiential criteria, including emotional and expressive features, cognitive complexity, and paraverbal aspects of interviewees' reports. The current experimental study adopted two perspectives of investigation: the first is aimed at assessing the ability of naïve judges to detect lies/truth by watching a videotaped interview; the second takes into account the interviewee's detectability as a liar or as telling the truth by a sample of judges. Additionally, this study is intended to evaluate the criteria adopted to support lie/truth detection a

SUBMITTER: Curci A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6357939 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature