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The detection of deception is an essential yet challenging component of investigative interviewing. Behavioural cues to deception in particular, have long been used in investigative interviewing contexts to determine decisions of suspect veracity and deceit. Nevertheless, deception research amongst non-American or European populations has yet to fully explore the effectiveness of such non-verbal observations. This study may be the first to examine truth-lie behaviours involving South-East Asian participants. In this study conducted in Singapore, 68 participants completed either a mock criminal task or a non-criminal task, before encountering an investigative interviewing scenario in which they had to lie or tell the truth to the interviewer. The results showed that liars displayed significantly more head movements and less hand/finger movements, as well as reported more feelings of guilt, than truth-tellers. Implications for investigator training and criminal investigative procedures are discussed.
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Special thanks goes to the interns of 2012, for your assistance in interviewing and data coding.
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Chan, S., Khader, M., Ang, J. et al. To Behave Like a Liar: Nonverbal Cues to Deception in an Asian Sample. J Police Crim Psych 31, 165–172 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-015-9177-2
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