Listening, not watching: Situational familiarity and the ability to detect deception

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 467-484

  Reinhard, Marc André ^a   Sporer, Siegfried L ^b   Scharmach, Martin ^a   Marksteiner, Tamara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Detection of deception; Lay judgment; Lie detection; Situational familiarity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECEPTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; DECEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052248042     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023726     Document Type: Article

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