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Mimicry and Deceit : A Facial Expression Analysis Experiment
Nau, Nick (2023) Mimicry and Deceit : A Facial Expression Analysis Experiment.
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| Abstract: | Deception is happening everywhere in the world. There is a knowledge gap between the research on how to recognize deception in deceivers compared to recognizing deception in the receiver of messages. To implicate the veracity of messages by looking at the receiver of a message and the mimicry they display is what this research is about. This was done using video stimuli of people trying to deceive the audience and video stimuli in which people were genuine. The participants (N=65) watched the videos and had to decide if they believed the person in the video to be truthful or not. The facial expressions of the participants were then compared to the facial expressions of the people in the videos to see how much mimicry was displayed. A significant effect was found in people’s mimicry of the people in the guilty video condition. This suggests that people looking at a deceiver will display more mimicry than when looking at an honest person. Since there is not much research, in the field of deception detection, on mimicry of a person receiving a message, more research will be needed to confirm these findings and expand on them. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/95219 |
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