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You are Lying! Verbal Deception Detection Within the Investigative Interview : Testing the Differences in Provided Verbal Cues Between Autistic and Neurotypical Suspects
Dignath, L.J. (2025) You are Lying! Verbal Deception Detection Within the Investigative Interview : Testing the Differences in Provided Verbal Cues Between Autistic and Neurotypical Suspects.
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| Abstract: | In the investigative interview, one main goal is gathering reliable details. However, suspects might try to mislead the interviewer. Therefore, detecting deception is important in investigative interviewing. Reality monitoring (RM) can be used for this, focusing on differences in the number of details to discriminate deception. The number of details mentioned can be influenced by cognitive load. Due to difficulties in cognitive load, autistic individuals might have difficulties with providing lies or provide fewer details due to encoding difficulties which could reduce the effectiveness of RM, since the testimony of an autistic individual might be incorrectly classified as a lie due to the vulnerability. This paper is among the first to research the use of RM with autistic suspects. We used a 2 (autistic vs. neurotypical) x 2 (guilty vs. innocent) quasi-experimental design interviewing students in a mock-investigative interview. The results showed that autism did not influence the number of details provided and that cognitive load had no effect on the relationship between autism and the number of provided details. Being guilty or not had a significant effect on the number of provided details. These findings indicate that autism seems to not influence the number of provided details. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Programme: | Psychology MSc (66604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/107412 |
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