Trust everybody, but always cut the cards: An exercise for exploring truth bias and deception detection
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This activity helps students examine key elements of truth-default theory. Specifically, by participating in a deception detection game, which secretly prompts different teams to be more or less suspicious, students learn that people’s tendency to be “truth biased” leads to lower accuracy when judging actual lies and higher accuracy when judging actual truths (i.e. “the veracity effect”).Courses Persuasion, Interpersonal Communication, Theory, Research Methods.Objectives Students learn about truth bias, its effects on perceptions of veracity, and its implications.
Source: Communication Teacher
Author: John S. Seiter
Institution: Utah State University
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4402379349