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Publication Date: 2021
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The Verifiability Approach to Deception Detection: A Preregistered Direct Replication of the Information Protocol Condition of Nahari, Vrij, and Fisher (2014b)
Verschuere, Bruno; Schutte, Manon; Opzeeland, Sharon; Kool, Ilona
Applied Cognitive Psychology, v35 n1 p308-316 Jan-Feb 2021
Nahari, Vrij, and Fischer [(2014b), "Applied Cognitive Psychology," 28, 122-128] found that, when participants were forewarned that their statements would be checked for verifiable details, truth tellers gave much more verifiable details than liars. In this direct replication (n = 72), participants wrote a statement claiming they had carried out their regular campus activities, whereas liars had actually stolen an exam. Statements were coded for verifiable details. Our primary prediction was confirmed: provided significantly more verifiable details than liars. Of note, the replication effect size (d = 0.49) was less than half that of the original (d = 1.14), and -- like in the original study -- was smaller than the lie-truth effect size for total details (verifiable and unverifiable details combined; d = 0.80). We hope this will stimulate other independent investigations of VA to tell whether or not coding for verifiability will pass Ockham's razor test.
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