Dull versus creative liars—Who deceives better? Fantasy proneness and verifiability of genuine and fabricated accounts

IF 0.8 4区心理学 Q4 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling Pub Date : 2020-10-06 DOI:10.1002/jip.1565

Irena Boskovic, Ayla Ramakers, Ali Yunus Emre Akca

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Abstract

The Verifiability Approach (VA), a lie detection method, postulates that genuine statements contain more verifiable information, whereas fabricated reports include more non-verifiable details. We investigated whether participants low (n = 19), medium (n = 23) and high (n = 26) on fantasy proneness differ in the (non)verifiability of their genuine and fabricated accounts. The results showed that groups did not differ in terms of statements' (non)verifiability. Overall, fabricated accounts included more non-verifiable details, but did not differ in verifiable details from genuine stories. The fabricated accounts from each group were given to legal psychology experts (N = 13) who rated accounts' authenticity. Experts more often recognised false accounts from the high fantasy proneness group, hence, high fantasy prone deceivers might be easier to detect than people with lower fantasy engagement. Overall, our results show that the VA is not sensitive to fantasy proneness, however, that experts might be.

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愚蠢的骗子和有创造力的骗子——谁更会骗人?真实和虚构账目的幻想倾向和可验证性

可验证性方法(VA)是一种测谎方法，它假设真实的陈述包含更多可验证的信息，而虚构的报告包含更多不可验证的细节。我们调查了幻想倾向低(n = 19)、中(n = 23)和高(n = 26)的参与者在真实和虚构账户的(非)可验证性方面是否存在差异。结果表明，各组在陈述的可验证性(非可验证性)方面没有差异。总的来说，编造的故事包含了更多无法证实的细节，但在可证实的细节上与真实故事没有区别。每组编造的账目被交给法律心理学专家(N = 13)，他们对账目的真实性进行评估。专家们更容易识别出高幻想倾向组的虚假账户，因此，高幻想倾向组的骗子可能比低幻想倾向组的骗子更容易被发现。总的来说，我们的结果表明，VA对幻想倾向并不敏感，然而，专家们可能是敏感的。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling (JIP-OP) is an international journal of behavioural science contributions to criminal and civil investigations, for researchers and practitioners, also exploring the legal and jurisprudential implications of psychological and related aspects of all forms of investigation. Investigative Psychology is rapidly developing worldwide. It is a newly established, interdisciplinary area of research and application, concerned with the systematic, scientific examination of all those aspects of psychology and the related behavioural and social sciences that may be relevant to criminal.