Stereotypical Verbal and Nonverbal Responses While Deceiving Others

By Aldert Vrij, K. Edward, Ray Bull. 2001

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This experiment examined the impact of public self-consciousness and acting ability on processes and stereotypical responses during deception. Seventy-three nursing students were videotaped while (a) telling the truth and (b) lying about a theft they had observed. A variety of cues were coded, including criteria-based content analysis (CBCA) and reality monitoring (RM), in which high scores indicated honest responding. Compared with truth tellers, liars waited longer before giving an answer, spoke faster, made more speech hesitations, showed fewer illustrators, and showed lower CBCA and RM scores. Public self-consciousness was positively correlated with trying to control behavior but negatively correlated with RM scores. Ability to act was negatively correlated with RM scores, with showing stereotypical deceptive facial behavior (gaze aversion and smiling), with having to think hard while lying, and with being nervous while lying.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The detection of deception with the reality monitoring approach: a review of the empirical evidence (2005, unknown): “Personality variables such as public self-consciousness and acting ability (Vrij et al ., 2001), and perhaps self-monitoring and gender of story-tellers, have to be taken into consideration.”
Detecting Deception from Emotional and Unemotional Cues (2009, background): “In the former, this is attributed to the increased cognitive load experienced during deception (e.g., Vrij et al. 2001), in the latter to the nonverbal leakage of lie-related emotions, such as fear or guilt, incongruent with the lie the deceiver is trying to present (Ekman 2001; Ekman and Friesen…”
Contemporary perspectives on the psychology of attitudes (2004, background): “For example, Fiedler and Walka (1993) and Vrij, Edward, and Bull (2001) suggest that deceptive communication tends to be factual whereas communication of truth is associated with more perception-like qualities.”
Let me inform you how to tell a convincing story: CBCA and reality monitoring scores as a function of age, coaching, and deception (2004, methodology): “Following previous examples (Vrij et al., 2000, 2001b, in press) a total Reality Monitoring score was calculated.”
Blinking During and After Lying (2008, background): “This occurred not only when lengthy, elaborative responses, were required (Granhag and Stro ¨mwall 2002; Hartwig et al. 2006; Stro ¨mwall et al. 2006; Vrij et al. 2001, 2006c; Vrij and Mann 2006; White and Burgoon 2001), but also when short responses were sufficient (Caso et al. 2005; Vrij et al. ”