On to part 4 of this series on research published in 2008 that I didn’t get a chance to blog about when it came out, where we take a peek at some of the new research on circumstances in which people lie and what makes them seem credible.
Part 1: Catching liars
Part 2: New technologies
Part 3: [...]
A new article from Zina Lee, Jessica R. Klaver and Stephen D. Hart reminds us that we need to be careful when assuming that promising results from lie detection studies where people without serious psychopathology are the subjects can be generalised to a forensic context.
Lee et al wondered whether a tool commonly used for assessing [...]
When do people think it might be ok to lie? Susanna Robinson Ning and Angela M. Crossman from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York have just published the results of an interesting study of lie acceptability.
The authors start off with a good summary of the literature on lie acceptability, and age, gender, [...]
Lying and deceit is a common feature of psychopathy, yet few studies have explored the behaviours of psychopaths while they lie. In an in-press article to appear in Law and Human Behavior, Jessica R. Klaver, Zina Lee and Stephen D. Hart from Simon Fraser University in Canada write:
Extant research suggests that, contrary to what [...]
An interesting idea for a longitudinal study, reported in the December 2006 issue of Communication Research: Walid A. Afifi and John P. Caughlin set out to test the role of rumination and the decision to reveal or continue to conceal secrets. They recruited 342 students who reported that they were keeping a secret from [...]
As others (thank you Mind Hacks!) have pointed out, New Scientist issue 2572 (7 October) carried a cover feature on confabulation. As Science Direct is ever-so-kindly giving free online access to New Scientist for the next few weeks, you can read it for free via this link (select 7 October edition and scroll down [...]
The BPS Research Digest has a post this week (20 July) on a recently published study indicating that people make snap judgements of trustworthiness based on facial appearance.
“These findings suggest that minimal exposure to faces is sufficient for people to form trait impressions, and that additional exposure time can simply boost confidence in these impressions. [...]
In the latest issue of Law and Human Behavior, an article reporting the results of a study by Gail S. Goodman and her colleagues exploring whether observers could detect children’s lies. The authors tested both adults’ ability to detect lies told by children and adults, with some interesting findings, notably that
observers detected children’s lies [...]
Amanda K. Johnson, Allyson Barnacz, Toko Yokkaichi, Jennifer Rubio, Connie Racioppi, Todd K. Shackelford, Maryanne L. Fisher and Julian Paul Keenan
Personality and Individual Differences 38(8), pp1847-1853, June 2005
Deception has been studied extensively but still little is known about individual differences in deception ability. We investigated the relationship between self-awareness and deception ability. We enlisted novice [...]
