3
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
1 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: found
      Is Open Access

      Plausibility: a verbal cue to veracity worth examining? Translated title: La credibilidad: ¿señal verbal de veracidad que vale la pena analizar?

      research-article

      Read this article at

      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          ABSTRACT Truth tellers sound more plausible than lie tellers. Plausibility ratings do not require much time or cognitive resources, but a disadvantage is that it is measured subjectively on Likert scales. The aim of the current paper was to understand if plausibility can be predicted by three other verbal veracity cues that can be measured objectively by counting their frequency of occurrence: details, complications, and verifiable sources. If these objective cues could predict plausibility, observers could be instructed to pay attention to them when judging plausibility, which would make plausibility ratings somewhat more objective. We therefore re-analysed five existing datasets; all of them included plausibility, details and complications and two of them also verifiable sources as dependent variables. Plausibility was positively correlated with all three other tested cues, but mostly predicted by complications and verifiable sources, explaining on average almost 40% of the variance. Plausibility showed larger effect sizes in distinguishing truth tellers from lie tellers than the three other cues, perhaps because the plausibility cue consists of multiple components (complications and verifiable sources). Research has shown that the cues that showed the strongest relationship with veracity typically consisted of multiple components.

          Translated abstract

          RESUMEN Las personas que dicen la verdad suenan más creibles que las mentirosas. La valoración de la credibilidad no necesita mucho tiempo ni recursos cognitivos, aunque tenga la desventaja de que se mide subjetivamente en escalas Likert. El objetivo de este trabajo es saber si la credibilidad puede predecirse mediante pistas de veracidad verbal que puede medirse objetivamente contando la frecuencia de ocurrencia: detalles, complicaciones y fuentes verificables. Si estas pistas cognitivas pudieran predecir la credibilidad se podría instruir a los observadores a que les presten atención al valorar la credibilidad, lo que haría que esta fuera algo más objetiva. Con esta intención reanalizamos cinco conjuntos de datos, todos los cuales incluían credibilidad, detalles y complicaciones y dos de ellos además fuentes verificables como variables dependientes. La credibilidad correlacionaba positivamente con las otras tres pistas que se probaron, predicha sobre todo por las complicaciones y las fuentes verificables, que explicaban de media casi el 40% de la varianza. La credibilidad mostró tamaños de efecto al distinguir personas que decían la verdad de las que mentían mayores que las otras tres pistas, tal vez porque la señal de plausibilidad tiene varios componentes (complicaciones y fuentes verificables). Según la investigación, las pistas con una relación más estrecha con la veracidad normalmente constaban de diversos componentes.

          Related collections

          Most cited references43

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: not found
          • Article: not found

          Cues to deception.

            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: not found
            • Article: not found

            Guilty and innocent suspects’ strategies during police interrogations

              Bookmark
              • Record: found
              • Abstract: not found
              • Article: not found

              The detection of deception with the reality monitoring approach: a review of the empirical evidence

                Bookmark

                Author and article information

                Journal
                ejpalc
                The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context
                The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context
                Sociedad Española de Psicología Jurídica y Forense; Colegio Oficial de la Psicología de Madrid (Madrid, Madrid, Spain )
                1889-1861
                1989-4007
                December 2021
                : 13
                : 2
                : 47-53
                Affiliations
                [03] Florida Florida orgnameFlorida International University United States
                [02] Gothenburg orgnameUniversity of Gothenburg Sweden
                [01] Portsmouth orgnameUniversity of Portsmouth United Kingdom
                Article
                S1889-18612021000200001 S1889-1861(21)01300200001
                10.5093/ejpalc2021a4
                e9e64b66-687d-4bc7-8cd8-1cda4d2452ac

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 22 October 2020
                : 15 June 2020
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 44, Pages: 7
                Product

                SciELO Spain

                Categories
                Research Articles

                Verifiable sources,Complications,Details,Plausibility,Deception,Fuentes verificables,Complicaciones,Detalles,Credibilidad,Engaño

                Comments

                Comment on this article

                scite_

                Similar content120

                Cited by9

                Most referenced authors271