Please be Honest and Provide Evidence: Deterrents of Deception in an Online Insurance Fraud Context

Leal, Sharon; Vrij, Aldert; Nahari, Galit; Mann, Samantha

doi:10.1002/acp.3252

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“…It may beas shown in Tables 1, 2, and 6that participants preferred to adjust to the interview and to gain time to structure the lie in a convincing manner before they start lying. These results are similar to those by Leal et al (2016) who showed that lie-tellers are less likely to lie at the outset (in an insurance claim in their study).…”

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When and how are lies told? And the role of culture and intentions in intelligence‐gathering interviews

Deeb

Vrij

Leal

et al. 2020

Legal Criminol Psychol

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Purpose. Lie-tellers tend to tell embedded lies within interviews. In the context of intelligence-gathering interviews, human sources may disclose information about multiple events, some of which may be false. In two studies, we examined when lie-tellers from low-and high-context cultures start reporting false events in interviews and to what extent they provide a similar amount of detail for the false and truthful events. Study 1 focused on lie-tellers' intentions, and Study 2 focused on their actual responses.Methods. Participants were asked to think of one false event and three truthful events. Study 1 (N = 100) was an online study in which participants responded to a questionnaire about where they would position the false event when interviewed and they rated the amount of detail they would provide for the events. Study 2 (N = 126) was an experimental study that involved interviewing participants about the events.Results. Although there was no clear preference for lie position, participants seemed to report the false event at the end rather than at the beginning of the interview. Also, participants provided a similar amount of detail across events. Results on intentions (Study 1) partially overlapped with results on actual responses (Study 2). No differences emerged between low-and high-context cultures.Conclusions. This research is a first step towards understanding verbal cues that assist investigative practitioners in saving their cognitive and time resources when detecting deception regardless of interviewees' cultural background. More research on similar cues is encouraged.Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed 'Curveball', is an Iraqi defector who gave intelligence about clandestine biological weapons in Iraq to German and American Intelligence Services, after which a war was waged on Iraq (Chulov & Pidd, 2011). It was later discovered that Curveball gave fabricated intelligence. He claimed that he was hoping that, based on his fabrications, the West would end the dictatorship regime of Saddam Hussein (Chulov & Pidd, 2011).This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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“…To our knowledge, there is only one study (Leal, Vrij, Nahari, & Mann, 2016) that tested when lie-tellers start lying. In an insurance claim setting, participants freely claimed eight items either genuinely or falsely.…”

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When and how are lies told? And the role of culture and intentions in intelligence‐gathering interviews

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Vrij

Leal

et al. 2020

Legal Criminol Psychol

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“…More broadly, the order of presenting the truths and lies within statements, and not solely the veracity, could have influenced the richness of details provided by participants in the mixed veracity conditions. Specifically, interviewees may have preferred to begin by telling the truth and to integrate their lie midway through the statement, a pattern previously observed in a study examining deception within an insurance claim setting (Leal, Vrij, Nahari, & Mann, 2016). The tendency for insurance claimants to begin by reporting truthfully and to tell their lies as the interview progressed may have been an attempt to gain the investigator's trust or to become more comfortable with the interview setting and investigator.…”

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The interaction of truthful and deceptive information

Verigin

Meijer

Vrij

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Psychology, Crime & Law

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Research consistently shows that truthful accounts are richer in detail than deceptive accounts. It is unknown, however, how interviewees strategically regulate the information they provide when their accounts contain both truthful and deceptive information. This study examined how truths and lies interact, and whether interviewees' self-reported strategies reflect such interactions. Participants (n = 144) provided one statement consisting of two elements. We manipulated the veracity of these elements, with participants allocated to either both truthful, both deceptive, or one truthful and the other deceptive conditions. Results indicated that interviewees calibrate the richness of detail provided in the first element of their statement based on the veracity of the following element. Moreover, our exploratory tests revealed that lies become more detailed when they are flanked by truthful information relative to when they are flanked by other deceptive information. The finding that truthful and deceptive information interacts to influence detail richness provides insight into liars' strategic manipulation of information when statements contain a mixture of truths and lies. Strategic manipulations of this kind could potentially threaten the reliability of commonly used verbal lie detection tools. This study also offers insight to legal practitioners who rely on baseline deviations to assess credibility.

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“…Research by Leal and colleagues (2016) had participants complete an online insurance claim of eight items, and they could freely make honest or dishonest claims. The authors located where participants made their first fake claim, and on average, the first fake was located in the third position out of eight (Leal et al, 2016). In another paper, Deeb and colleagues (2020) evaluated the location of lies and truths in interviews across those from high-and low-context cultures.…”

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The Location of Maximum Emotion in Deceptive and Truthful Texts

Sepehri

Markowitz

Duclos

2020

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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Meta-analytic evidence suggests that verbal patterns of emotion betray deceit, but it is presently unclear whether the location of maximum emotion in lies and truths matters to reveal deception. We contribute to the deception literature by offering analyses at the sentence level to locate where emotion is most pronounced in deceptive versus truthful texts. Using two public data sets—news articles (Study 1) and hotel reviews (Study 2)—we found that maximum emotion occurs toward the beginning of deceptive texts while maximum emotion appears later for truthful texts. In addition to demonstrating the effect across diverse settings, we used two different measurements for emotion and separated the results by valence, replicating the maximum emotion effect each time. The predictive nature of maximum affect ranged from 54% to 56% across data sets, a rate consistent with most deception studies using 50-50 lie–truth base rates. Implications for future research and deception theory are discussed.

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Please be Honest and Provide Evidence: Deterrents of Deception in an Online Insurance Fraud Context

Cited by 8 publications

References 15 publications

When and how are lies told? And the role of culture and intentions in intelligence‐gathering interviews

When and how are lies told? And the role of culture and intentions in intelligence‐gathering interviews

The interaction of truthful and deceptive information

The Location of Maximum Emotion in Deceptive and Truthful Texts

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