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Catching a Deceiver in the Act: Processes Underlying Deception in an Interactive Interview Setting

Overview of attention for article published in Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, May 2016
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Title
Catching a Deceiver in the Act: Processes Underlying Deception in an Interactive Interview Setting
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Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, May 2016
DOI 10.1007/s10484-016-9339-8
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Sabine Ströfer, Elze G. Ufkes, Matthijs L. Noordzij, Ellen Giebels

Abstract

Lying is known to evoke stress and cognitive load. Both form cues to deception and lead to an increase in sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity. But in reality, deceivers stick to the truth most the time and only lie occasionally. The present study therefore examined in an interactive suspect interview setting, whether deceivers still have clearly diverging cognitive and emotional processes from truth tellers when only having the intention to lie incidentally. We found that deceivers who lied constantly diverge from truth tellers in SNS activity, self-reported cognitive load and stress. Across all interviews, SNS activity correlated stronger with self-reports of cognitive load than stress, which supports the cognitive load approach. Furthermore, deceivers who told the truth and lied on only one crucial question, particularly diverged in self-reported stress from truth-tellers. In terms of SNS activity and self-reported cognitive load, no differences were found. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 69 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 20%
Student > Master 13 19%
Student > Bachelor 7 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 7%
Other 4 6%
Other 10 14%
Unknown 16 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 30 43%
Arts and Humanities 4 6%
Social Sciences 4 6%
Linguistics 3 4%
Neuroscience 3 4%
Other 6 9%
Unknown 19 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 July 2020.
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#14,906,966
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#228
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#192,036
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#1
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