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Adults' perceptions of children's videotaped truthful and deceptive statements
Author(s) -
WESTCOTT HELEN L.,
DAVIES GRAHAM M.,
CLIFFORD BRIAN R.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/j.1099-0860.1991.tb00378.x
Subject(s) - deception , truth telling , psychology , perception , lie detection , social psychology , psychoanalysis , neuroscience
SUMMARY. This article uses a research study on decisions about children's truth telling to discuss the difficult issues involved in using video‐taped evidence in child abuse cases. The adult raters had to decide whether each child recounting a school trip was telling the truth or had only seen a video recording of the day's events. Raters were just above chance in detecting truth and deception, were better able to detect truth tellers than deceivers, and were more successful in decoding deceptive behaviour presented by boys and younger children. Most accuracy‐confidence relationships were not significant.