Assessing deception detection accuracy with dichotomous truth-lie judgments and continuous scaling: Are people really more accurate when honesty is scaled?

Communication Research Reports

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 112-122

  Levine, Timothy R ^a   Shaw, Allison S ^a   Shulman, Hillary ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lie Detection; Lies; Measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959677514     PISSN: 08824096     EISSN: 17464099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08824090903526638     Document Type: Article

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