Citation

Elliott E, Leach AM. J. Exp. Psychol. Appl. 2016; 22(4): 488-499.

Affiliation

Faculty of Social Science and Humanities.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/xap0000102

PMID

27936858

Abstract

We examined the impact of interviewees' language proficiencies on observers' lie detection performance. Observers (N = 132) were randomly assigned to make deception judgments about interviewees (N = 56) from Four proficiency groups (i.e., native, advanced, intermediate, and beginner English speakers). Discrimination between lie- and truth-tellers was poorest when observers judged beginner English speakers compared to interviewees from any other proficiency group. Observers were also less likely to exhibit a truth-bias toward nonnative than native English speakers. These results suggest that interviewing individuals in their nonnative languages can create inequalities in the justice system. (PsycINFO Database Record

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