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The literature on indicators of deception is extensive, yet few rigorous investigations have documented the deceptive communication behavior associated with culture. Notwithstanding, culture can play a profound role in affecting the emotional and cognitive factors that are theorized to differentiate behavioral patterns between deceivers and truth-tellers. To close the considerable gap in our knowledge about deception in cross-cultural contexts, in this chapter, we measured several culturally relevant concepts and tested the relationship among cultural factors, deception, and deception detection. The beginning of the chapter reviews a number of cultural factors and instantiates culture into two prongs: the group-level and the individual-level. Then, we conducted an experiment with the rapid credibility assessment method involving 220 participants across more than ten ethnicity groups to explore how culture affects deception and its detection. Physiological and behavioral indicators have been studied to suggest how culture relates to deceivers’ motivation, cognitive difficulty, and nervousness, as well as their kinesic, vocalic, and linguistic behaviors. The study also examined influences of culture in deceivers’ success and tested behavior measures that could help to predict deception. This investigation establishes the foundation for the SCAN project and paves the way for the future research of culture influence on deceptive communication.
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We are grateful to the Army Research Office for funding much of the work reported in this book under Grant W911NF-16-1-0342. Judee Burgoon and Jay Nunamaker are affiliated with Discern Science International, a for-profit entity that develops systems for credibility assessment.
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Burgoon, J.K., Metaxas, D., Nunamaker, J.F., (Tina) Ge, S. (2021). Cultural Influence on Deceptive Communication. In: Subrahmanian, V.S., Burgoon, J.K., Dunbar, N.E. (eds) Detecting Trust and Deception in Group Interaction. Terrorism, Security, and Computation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54383-9_11
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