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Affecting the perception of verbal cues to deception
Author(s) -
Strömwall Leif A.,
Anders Granhag Pär
Publication year - 2003
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.851
Subject(s) - deception , psychology , situational ethics , perception , presentation (obstetrics) , cognitive psychology , social psychology , nonverbal communication , developmental psychology , medicine , neuroscience , radiology
An important but overlooked factor in deception detection research is how the perception of verbal cues to deception can be affected by situational factors. This study examined how participants' ( N = 200) perceptions were influenced by presentation mode (Experiments 1 and 2) and repeated exposure/assessment (Experiment 3). As predicted, presentation mode affected the perception of several verbal cues. Participants who watched a videotaped testimony rated the degree of the cues richness of detail, completeness, logical structure and plausibility, higher than those who read the transcript of the same testimony. Furthermore, repeated exposure to the testimony, in combination with repeated assessments, lowered the participants' ratings of the verbal cues. People's perception of the verbal content of a testimony can thus be affected by situational factors. The results are discussed in psycho‐legal terms. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.