RT Article
T1 Detecting deception using comparable truth baselines
JF Psychology, crime & law
VO 29
IS 6
SP 567
OP 583
A1 Bogaard, Glynis
A2 Meijer, Ewout 1975-
A2 Vrij, Aldert 1960-
A2 Nahari, Galit
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1852221364
AB Baselining – comparing the statements of interest to a known truthful statement by the same individual – has been suggested to improve lie detection accuracy. A potential downside of baselining is that it might influence the characteristics of a subsequent statement, as was shown in previous studies. In our first experiment we examined this claim but found no evidence that a truthful baseline influenced the characteristics of a subsequent statement. Next, we investigated whether using a truthful baseline statement as a within-subject comparison would improve lie detection performance by investigating verbal cues (Experiment 1) and intuitive judgements of human judges (Experiment 2). Our exploratory analyses showed that truth tellers included more auditory and temporal details in their target statement than in their baseline than liars. Observers did not identify this verbal pattern. Exposure to a truthful baseline statement resulted in a lower truth accuracy but no difference in lie accuracy.
K1 lie detection accuracy
K1 cues to deception
K1 verbal credibility assessment
K1 Baselining
DO 10.1080/1068316X.2022.2030334