title: Increasing cognitive load to facilitate lie detection: the benefit of recalling an event in reverse order.
abstract: In two experiments, we tested the hypotheses that (a) the difference between liars and truth tellers will be greater when interviewees report their stories in reverse order than in chronological order, and (b) instructing interviewees to recall their stories in reverse order will facilitate detecting deception. In Experiment 1, 80 mock suspects told the truth or lied about a staged event and did or did not report their stories in reverse order. The reverse order interviews contained many more cues to deceit than the control interviews. In Experiment 2, 55 police officers watched a selection of the videotaped interviews of Experiment 1 and made veracity judgements. Requesting suspects to convey their stories in reverse order improved police observers' ability to detect deception and did not result in a response bias.
authors: Psychology Department, University of Portsmouth, King Henry Building, King Henry 1 Street, Portsmouth PO1 2DY, UK. aldert.vrij@port.ac.uk
authors: Aldert
authors: A
authors: Vrij
authors: Samantha A
authors: SA
authors: Mann
authors: Ronald P
authors: RP
authors: Fisher
authors: Sharon
authors: S
authors: Leal
authors: Rebecca
authors: R
authors: Milne
authors: Ray
authors: R
authors: Bull
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003071:Cognition; D003463:Cues; D008192:Deception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D017603:Signal Detection, Psychological; D014342:Truth Disclosure