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

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ID14895751
AutoresHelen Westcott (autor correspondente), HELEN L WESTCOTT, Gwilym M Davies (0000-0001-7278-7058), Graham M Davies, Brian R Clifford
Ano1991
Volume5
Fascículo2
Páginas123-135
Data de publicação1991-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoChildren & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0951-0605 • E-ISSN: 1099-0860
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1099-0860.1991.tb00378.x
OpenAlexW2043641272
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências 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