This study was designed to explore the impact of situation-based behavioral expectancies on accuracy in detecting deception. Two experiments were conducted. The research question for Experiment 1 centered on whether subjects would be more accurate in judging sincerity/deception when they shared the same judgment context as the sender versus when the judgment context of the sender and the observer were different. It was predicted that relative to the judgments made under the condition of High Context Congruity, the judgments made under the condition of Low Context Congruity would be less accurate. In Experiment 2, it was predicted that there would be greater accuracy in judging deception when an appropriate judgment context was presented to the subjects (Frame Present) than when no context was provided to the subjects (Frame Absent). / 296 undergraduates viewed videotapes of target persons making true and fabricated presentations. The subjects rated the sincerity, believability, and truthfulness of each presentation on a 9-point scale. The initial analyses found that accuracy in detecting deception was not a function of level of context congruity, nor a function of presence or absence of frame induction. However, post hoc analyses revealed that the context congruity effect was being masked by the effects of type of context. The level of context congruity had the opposite effect on accuracy in the different contexts. These findings supported the central argument that situational factors impact on the behavior of both the target and the evaluators of deceptive communications, and thereby affects accuracy in detecting deception. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-05, Section: B, page: 2944. / Major Professor: John C. Brigham. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77465 |
| Contributors | Nance, Carriella Herndon., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 181 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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