Year: 2012
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: A person’s expressive behavior is different in situations where he or she is alone, or where an additional person is present. This study looks at the extent to which such physical co-presence effects have an impact on a child’s ability to deceive. Using an experimental digitized puppet show, truthful and deceptive utterances were elicited from children who were interacting with two story characters. The children were sitting alone, or as a couple together with another child. A first perception study in which minimal pairs of truthful and deceptive utterances were shown (vision-only) to adult observers revealed that the correct detection of deceptive utterances is dependent on whether the stimuli were produced by a child alone or together with another child (both being visible). A second perception study presented participants with videos from children of the couples condition that were edited so that only one child was visible. The study revealed that the deceptive utterances could more often be detected correctly in the more talkative children than in the more passive ones. 1
Author: Marc Swerts
Institution: Tilburg University
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G6708781559, SDCI Data New: A Modular Software Framework for Evaluation, Testing, and Cross-Fertilization of Authorship Attribution Techniques, NSCC/LA: Collaborative Research: Modeling Discourse and Social Dynamics in Authoritarian Regimes, SDCI Data: Improvement: Java Graphical Authorship Attribution Program (JGAAP)
OpenAlex ID: W2101912617