Adults' perceptions of children's videotaped truthful and deceptive statements

Datos Bibliográficos

ID14895751
AutoresHelen Westcott (autor de correspondencia), HELEN L WESTCOTT, Gwilym M Davies (0000-0001-7278-7058), Graham M Davies, Brian R Clifford
Año1991
Volumen5
Número2
Páginas123-135
Fecha de publicación1991-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaChildren & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0951-0605 • E-ISSN: 1099-0860
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1099-0860.1991.tb00378.x
OpenAlexW2043641272
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas20

This article uses a research study on decisions about children's truth telling to discuss the difficult issues involved in using video‐taped evidence in child abuse cases. The adult raters had to decide whether each child recounting a school trip was telling the truth or had only seen a video recording of the day's events. Raters were just above chance in detecting truth and deception, were better able to detect truth tellers than deceivers, and were more successful in decoding deceptive behaviour presented by boys and younger children. Most accuracy‐confidence relationships were not significant

Deception · Lie detection · Perception · Psychoanalysis · Truth telling · Deception detection and forensic psychology · Memory Processes and Influences · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Psychology