Beth Richardson: The Effect of Unconscious Priming on Cues to Deception
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| Description: | (No description) |
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| Created: | 2015-09-28 17:40 |
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| Collection: | Decepticon 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Dr S. Van der Zee |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | Deception; Priming; Language; |
| Abstract: | Literature suggests that deceptive and genuine statements differ in their content. However, this fails to consider external language processes and how these may impact deceptive statements. Two experimental studies examine whether or not linguistic priming a) is adopted unconsciously when participants fabricate a story and b) can cause liars to respond more like truth tellers during interview. In Study 1, participants (N = 44), were asked to both describe a genuine experience and to fabricate an event. During both conditions, irrelevant speech was present in the background. In Study 2, participants (N = 80) completed two tasks with a confederate. The second task required them to cheat to succeed. Under interview, interviewee’s were primed by variations in interviewer’s question construction, which emphasized personal pronouns, affect, cognitive mechanisms, or negations. Analyses revealed an effect of unconscious language priming, particularly for liars. Results are discussed in terms of impact on judgments of veracity, such as Criteria Based Content Analysis. |
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