Video: Simple but Diagnostic: Diagnosticity is the basis for the Heuristic Approach to Lie Detection

The video below shows my presentation at the Decepticon 2022 conference organised in October 2022 by the Deception Research Society for deception researchers. In my presentation, I presented my research master’s internship report. This was an experiment I conducted at the Lie Lab of the University of Amsterdam. The study was part of a larger study that was published in the Nature Human Behaviour journal and link to the resources of that study can be found here.

In the study, we found that participants relying on a non-diagnostic cue (eye gaze aversion) could not distinguish between truthful and lie statements. However, participants relying on a diagnostic cue (details) were able to discriminate honest from deceptive statements. The results imply that the heuristic approach does not just rely on the use of a single cue but on the diagnosticity (ability of the cue to detect lie or true statement) of that single cue. This has benefit for effective deception detection training.

Obed Appiah & Bruno Verschuere – Simple but diagnostic: Diagnosticity is the basis for the Heuristic Approach to Lie Detection

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