title: Will the truth come out? the effect of deception, age, status, coaching, and social skills on CBCA scores.
abstract: The impact of Veracity, Age, Status (witness or suspect), Coaching (informed or uninformed regarding CBCA), and Social Skills (social anxiety, social adroitness, and self-monitoring) on Criteria-Based Content Analysis scores was examined. Participants (aged 5-6, 10-11, 14-15, and undergraduates) participated in a "rubbing the blackboard" event. In a subsequent interview they told the truth or lied about the event. They were accused of having rubbed the blackboard themselves (suspect condition) or were thought to have witnessed the event (witness condition), and were or were not taught some CBCA criteria prior to the interview. CBCA scores discriminated between liars and truth tellers in children, adults, witnesses, and suspects. However, truth tellers obtained higher CBCA scores than liars only when the liars were uninformed about CBCA. CBCA scores were correlated with social skills. It is argued that thesefindings should caution those who believe that the validity of CBCA has been conclusively demonstrated.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom. aldert.vrij@port.ac.uk
authors.forename: Aldert
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vrij
authors.forename: Lucy
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Akehurst
authors.forename: Stavroula
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Soukara
authors.forename: Ray
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bull
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008014:Lie Detection; D008297:Male; D015588:Observer Variation; D011581:Psychological Tests; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D006113:United Kingdom