Police Detection of Deception: Beliefs About Behavioral Cues to Deception Are Strong Even Though Contextual Evidence Is More Useful

[EN]Research questions the validity of behavioral deception cues; however, people believe behavioral cues are reliable deception indicators. Police officers and community members indicated both how lies can be detected (beliefs), and how they discovered a lie in the past (revealing information). Off...

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Autores: Masip Pallejá, Jaume, Herrero Alonso, María Carmen
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/159754
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/159754
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Deception
Deception Cues
Beliefs
Police
Context
TDT
Descripción
Sumario:[EN]Research questions the validity of behavioral deception cues; however, people believe behavioral cues are reliable deception indicators. Police officers and community members indicated both how lies can be detected (beliefs), and how they discovered a lie in the past (revealing information). Officers did the latter twice, prompted with a professional versus a personal context. For both groups, beliefs were primarily behavioral (e.g., demeanor) and revealing information contextual (evidence, third-party information, etc.). Officers responded similarly regardless of context. Relative to communitymembers, officers provided more cues and referred more often to verbal contradictions and active detection strategies when asked about beliefs. Practitioners should bemade aware of the discrepancies between their beliefs about deception cues and useful information to detect lies.