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Eliciting information and cues to deceit through sketching in interpreter‐based interviews
Author(s) -
Vrij Aldert,
Leal Sharon,
Fisher Ronald P.,
Mann Samantha,
Jo Eunkyung,
Shaboltas Alla,
Khaleeva Maria,
Granskaya Juliana,
Houston Kate
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.3566
Subject(s) - interpreter , sketch , psychology , interview , social psychology , deception , value (mathematics) , computer science , sociology , programming language , algorithm , machine learning , anthropology
Summary As interviewees typically say less when an interpreter is present, we examined whether this was caused by interpreters not interpreting everything interviewees says or by interviewees providing less information. We further examined (a) the effect of a model drawing on providing information and (b) the diagnostic value of total details and the proportion of complications as cues to deceit. Hispanic, Russian, and South Korean participants were interviewed by native interviewers or by a British interviewer through an interpreter. Truth tellers discussed a trip they had made; liars fabricated a story. Participants received no instruction (condition 1) or were instructed to sketch while narrating without (condition 2) or with (condition 3) being given examples of detailed sketches. Interviewees said less when an interpreter was present because they provided less information. Truth tellers gave more details and, particularly, obtained a higher proportion of complications than liars. The sketching manipulation had no effect.