Content in Context Improves Deception Detection Accuracy

Blair, J. Pete; Levine, Timothy R.; Shaw, Allison S.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2958.2010.01382.x

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“…First, some of the most successful deception detection methods use evidence to challenge accounts during interviews. Evidence-based methods yield up to 75% detection with scripted questions (Blair, Levine, & Shaw, 2010;Levine, Shaw & Shulman, 2010) and 68% with questions created in real time (Dando & Bull, 2011;Dando, Bull, Ormerod, & Sandham, 2013).…”

Section: Approaches To Detecting Deceptionmentioning

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“…Second, questioning styles that elicit rich verbal accounts are also effective in discriminating between truth-tellers and liars (Milne & Bull, 1999;Oxburgh & Dando, 2011;Oxburgh, Myklebust, & Grant, 2010 (Blair, Levine, & Shaw, 2010). For example, if you claim to have studied at Oxford University, it would be reasonable to expect you to know how to travel on public transport from the train station to your college.…”

Section: Approaches To Detecting Deceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent research highlights the importance of context in assessing the effectiveness of methods for detecting mal-intent (Blair, Levine, & Shaw, 2010).…”

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Finding a needle in a haystack: Toward a psychologically informed method for aviation security screening.

Ormerod¹,

Dando²

2015

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Current aviation security systems identify behavioral indicators of deception to assess risks to flights, but they lack a strong psychological basis or empirical validation. We present a new method that tests the veracity of passenger accounts. In an in vivo double-blind randomized-control trial conducted in international airports, security agents detected 66% of deceptive passengers using the veracity test method compared with less than 5% using behavioral indicator recognition. As well as revealing advantages of veracity testing over behavioral indicator identification, the study provides the highest levels to date of deception detection in a realistic setting where the known base rate of deceptive individuals is low.You have to measure whether what we're doing is the only way to assure . . . safety. And you also have to think are there ways . . . that are less intrusive (Barak Obama, Lisbon, November 2010).

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Section: Approaches To Detecting Deceptionmentioning

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Section: Approaches To Detecting Deceptionmentioning

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Finding a needle in a haystack: Toward a psychologically informed method for aviation security screening.

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Dando²

2015

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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“…In fact, in real life, lies are usually discovered by information from the context, not by the nonverbal behavior of the liar (Masip & Herrero, 2015;Park, Levine, McCornack, Morrison, & Ferrara, 2002). Accordingly, introducing a familiar situation and diagnostic contextual information to the experimental paradigm can raise accuracy rates substantially (Blair, Levine, & Shaw, 2010;Bond, Howard, Hutchison, & Masip, 2013;Levine, 2015;Levine, Kim, & Blair, 2010;Reinhard, Sporer, Scharmach, & Marksteiner, 2011).…”

Section: Parallels Between Detecting Lies and Detecting Faked Painmentioning

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An Evolutionary Perspective on Pain Communication

Steinkopf

2016

Evol Psychol

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Pain serves as a signal to elicit care from others. In turn, displaying pain might be attractive because of the benefits it might bring. Additionally, displaying pain is easy, because helpers distinguish poorly between genuine pain and faked pain. Hence, helpers face the problem of distinguishing true sufferers from free riders, while sufferers face the problem of communicating need convincingly. This article will propose solutions to these adaptive problems. Based on theoretical arguments and on empirical insights from lie detection research, it will be argued that the credibility of pain signals cannot be found in features of the signal itself, but in its context. Namely, pain is obviously credible when the context features unforgeable cues, such as an open wound or the enlarged abdomen of a pregnant woman, but also external cues such as the ice water in cold pressor tasks. In absence of such cues, pain can become credible through costly consequences, such as refraining from rewarding behaviors for a significant period. However, these adaptive mechanisms for communicating need may not be shaped for modern circumstances such as experimental settings and therapeutic encounters.

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“…This may be explained by judges' reliance on verbal cues to deception, which are more useful and lead to more accurate judgments than nonverbal cues to deception (DePaulo et al, 2003). It may also be that familiarity with the setting makes it easier for investigators to connect together other available information about the case, which ultimately enhances judgment accuracy (Blair, Levine, & Shaw, 2010). Future research may examine this speculation and may also test whether familiar and unfamiliar investigators are accurate when detecting lies by familiar and/or unfamiliar liars.…”

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Visuospatial counter‐interrogation strategies by liars familiar with the alibi setting

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Granhag

Vrij

et al. 2018

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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SummaryThis study examines counter-interrogation strategies employed by liars giving false alibis. Participants (N = 144) visited a restaurant to buy a sandwich (truth-tellers) or to use it as a false alibi (liars). Half of the liars were informed they might be asked for a drawing of the alibi setting if interviewed (informed liars). Participants spent either 10 min (high familiarity condition) or 30 s (low familiarity condition) in the restaurant. All participants were asked to provide two visuospatial statements, which were assessed for salient details, nonsalient details, between-statement consistency, and statement-alibi setting consistency. Informed liars provided significantly more salient and nonsalient details than uninformed liars and truth-tellers, particularly in the high familiarity condition. No differences emerged for statement consistency types. The results suggest that liars are more concerned than truth-tellers about making a positive impression on the interviewer, and they fail to accurately reflect on truth-tellers' visuospatial statements. | INTRODUCTIONConsider a man who travels by car from the place where he lives to a distant city that he has never visited before. The man books a room in a hotel for one night. On that evening, the man targets a woman walking on the streets, abducts her in his car, and strangles her in a nearby scrapyard. The murderer then goes to a nearby pub for two hours and returns back to the hotel afterwards. On the next day, he goes to his workplace, acting as if nothing has happened. Consider another incident in which a woman murders someone in her neighbourhood and heads immediately afterwards to a festival that is hosted for the first time in the city. The woman stays there for half an hour before going home. Now, imagine that these two murderers were suspected by the police and questioned about the relevant crime. The suspects say they were at the pub/festival when the crime occurred, giving a false alibi.Investigators may want to establish if the suspects were in the claimed alibi location at the time the crime occurred. This can be determined if detailed questions about the alibi setting are asked. For the first case, investigators may come to know that the murderer booked a room for one night in a hotel situated near the crime location, so if he was in the pub, it would probably have been on the same night. Detailed questions about the suspect's stay at the pub may clarify whether he was there and the time he might have been there. For the second case, the suspect may also be asked detailed questions about the festival, which has never happened previously in the city. Hence, asking the suspect about the setting, decoration, bands' appearances, and order, among others, would assist officers in understanding whether the suspect was there or not. Now, imagine that the same murderers, before committing the crime, explored interview techniques that investigators employ. Knowing the type of questions that officers ask during interviews will help the murderers prepar...

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Content in Context Improves Deception Detection Accuracy

Cited by 118 publications

References 20 publications

Finding a needle in a haystack: Toward a psychologically informed method for aviation security screening.

Finding a needle in a haystack: Toward a psychologically informed method for aviation security screening.

An Evolutionary Perspective on Pain Communication

Visuospatial counter‐interrogation strategies by liars familiar with the alibi setting

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