Deception among pairs: "Let's say we had lunch and hope they will swallow it!"
(2003) In Psychology, Crime and Law 9(2). p.109-124- Abstract
- Deception research has neglected the fact that legal-workers often have to try to detect deceit on the basis of statements derived from pairs of suspects, each having been interrogated repeatedly. To remedy this shortcoming we conducted a study where each member of 10 truth-telling pairs and 10 lying pairs was interrogated twice about an alibi. One hundred and twenty undergraduate students were enrolled as lie-catchers. The main findings were that (a) overall deception detection accuracy was modest; (b) lie-catchers given access to a large number of statements did not outperform lie-catchers given access to a lesser number of statements; (c) when asked to justify their veracity assessments the most frequently reported cue was 'consistency... (More)
- Deception research has neglected the fact that legal-workers often have to try to detect deceit on the basis of statements derived from pairs of suspects, each having been interrogated repeatedly. To remedy this shortcoming we conducted a study where each member of 10 truth-telling pairs and 10 lying pairs was interrogated twice about an alibi. One hundred and twenty undergraduate students were enrolled as lie-catchers. The main findings were that (a) overall deception detection accuracy was modest; (b) lie-catchers given access to a large number of statements did not outperform lie-catchers given access to a lesser number of statements; (c) when asked to justify their veracity assessments the most frequently reported cue was 'consistency within pairs of suspects'; (d) all cues to deception were of low diagnostic value. Psycho-legal aspects of integrating sequential information in deception detection contexts are discussed. (Less)
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- Strömwall, Leif ; Granhan, Pär Anders and Jonsson, Anna-Carin LU
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- 2003
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- keywords
- Deception detection, Repeated interrogations, Diagnostic values of cues to deception, Pairs of suspects
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- Psychology, Crime and Law
- volume
- 9
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 109 - 124
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
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- wos:000183069600001
- scopus:18844468752
- ISSN
- 1477-2744
- DOI
- 10.1080/1068316031000116238
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- English
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