Heuristic versus systematic processing of information in detecting deception: Questioning the truth bias

Psychological Reports

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-36

  Masip, Jaume ^a   Garrido, Eugenio ^a   Herrero, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECEPTION; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEARING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECOGNITION; TIME; VIDEORECORDING; VISION;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DECEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LIE DETECTION; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70350119854     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.105.1.11-36     Document Type: Article

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