Intuitive Lie Detection: The Role of Subjective Judgments in Facilitating Deception Detection

Location

CSU Ballroom

Start Date

11-4-2017 2:00 PM

End Date

11-4-2017 3:30 PM

Student's Major

Psychology

Student's College

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Mentor's Name

Emily Stark

Mentor's Department

Psychology

Mentor's College

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Description

When we make judgments of others, we follow specific criteria. We watch others; we watch their body language, we watch their eye contact, or we watch for any unusual habits that they may partake in. Along with these, we also listen to our gut feeling about the person or the overall situation we find ourselves in. Together with all of these criteria we come to a conclusion of whether or not a person is being truthful with us or trying to deceive us. However, there are few "tells" or cues, whether physiological, biological or verbal, that are directly associated with telling a lie. As a result, many deception studies (Bond & DePaulo, 2006/2008) have only found a slightly above chance rate of differentiation between truths and lies, across a wide range of participants.

Some lie detection studies have examined intuition, and how participants make judgements based on contextual cues, such as their emotional responses rather than a logical analysis of the situation. Albrechtsen, Meissner, and Susa (2009) have demonstrated this by showing that when participants relied on their intuitive processes, it results in more accurate judgments in detecting deception. It seems that many people when placed in a situation where they are trying to detect lies may use their intuition to judge the situation. The goal of this current research is to compare objective measures of lie detection accuracy to more subjective or intuitive measures, to see if people can intuitively detect when people are lying.

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Intuitive Lie Detection: The Role of Subjective Judgments in Facilitating Deception Detection

CSU Ballroom

When we make judgments of others, we follow specific criteria. We watch others; we watch their body language, we watch their eye contact, or we watch for any unusual habits that they may partake in. Along with these, we also listen to our gut feeling about the person or the overall situation we find ourselves in. Together with all of these criteria we come to a conclusion of whether or not a person is being truthful with us or trying to deceive us. However, there are few "tells" or cues, whether physiological, biological or verbal, that are directly associated with telling a lie. As a result, many deception studies (Bond & DePaulo, 2006/2008) have only found a slightly above chance rate of differentiation between truths and lies, across a wide range of participants.

Some lie detection studies have examined intuition, and how participants make judgements based on contextual cues, such as their emotional responses rather than a logical analysis of the situation. Albrechtsen, Meissner, and Susa (2009) have demonstrated this by showing that when participants relied on their intuitive processes, it results in more accurate judgments in detecting deception. It seems that many people when placed in a situation where they are trying to detect lies may use their intuition to judge the situation. The goal of this current research is to compare objective measures of lie detection accuracy to more subjective or intuitive measures, to see if people can intuitively detect when people are lying.

Recommended Citation

Hill, Elijah and Paige Shoutz. "Intuitive Lie Detection: The Role of Subjective Judgments in Facilitating Deception Detection." Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mankato, MN, April 11, 2017.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/urs/2017/poster-session-B/26