RT Article
T1 Applying the Verifiability Approach in an international airport setting
JF Psychology, crime & law
VO 23
IS 8
SP 812
OP 825
A1 Jupe, Louise M.
A2 Vrij, Aldert 1960-
A2 Leal, Sharon
A2 Nahari, Galit
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/173600235X
AB In the current study, we tested the utility of applying the Verifiability Approach (VA) within an international airport setting. The VA works on the notion that truth tellers provide more verifiable details than liars and has shown to be successful within other empirical deception detection scenarios. Three hundred and ninety-nine airside participants (those originating from Europe, Asia and African) were asked questions regarding their travel plans. We asked participants to either lie (n = 195) or tell the truth (n = 204) about their planned activities. The critical question required participants to provide information that would convince the investigator that they were telling the truth. We then transcribed and coded their responses for verifiable details; that is, details that could potentially be checked by an investigator. Overall, truth tellers provided significantly more verifiable details than liars. Furthermore, when taking their geographical origin into account, there was no interaction effect between veracity and region. Additionally, truth tellers provided a higher verifiable/total detail ratio than liars, which again showed no interaction effect between veracity and region. These findings support the suitability of the VA as a cross-cultural veracity tool and implications for its use as an additional security aid are discussed.
K1 Deception
K1 Verifiability Approach
K1 Airport security
K1 Cross-cultural lie detection
K1 Verbal cues
DO 10.1080/1068316X.2017.1327584