title: Countering countermeasures: detecting identity lies by detecting conscious breakthrough.
abstract: One major drawback of deception detection is its vulnerability to countermeasures, whereby participants wilfully modulate their physiological or neurophysiological response to critical guilt-determining stimuli. One reason for this vulnerability is that stimuli are usually presented slowly. This allows enough time to consciously apply countermeasures, once the role of stimuli is determined. However, by increasing presentation speed, stimuli can be placed on the fringe of awareness, rendering it hard to perceive those that have not been previously identified, hindering the possibility to employ countermeasures. We tested an identity deception detector by presenting first names in Rapid Serial Visual Presentation and instructing participants to lie about their own identity. We also instructed participants to apply a series of countermeasures. The method proved resilient, remaining effective at detecting deception under all countermeasures.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems (CCNCS), School of Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom; Department of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Howard
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bowman
authors.affiliation: Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems (CCNCS), School of Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom; Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Filetti
authors.affiliation: Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems (CCNCS), School of Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom; Department of Computer Science, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Abdulmajeed
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alsufyani
authors.affiliation: NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, Breda, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Janssen
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Su
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D008014:Lie Detection / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D055815:Young Adult