Deception detection accuracy is a predictable linear function of message veracity base-rate: A formal test of park and levine's probability model

Communication Monographs

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 243-260

  Levine, Timothy R ^a   Kim, Rachel K ^a   Park, Hee Sun ^a   Hughes, Mikayla ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Deception; Lies; Lying; Truth bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750076704     PISSN: 03637751     EISSN: 14795787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03637750600873736     Document Type: Article

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