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Lie–truth judgments: adaptive lie detector account and truth-default theory compared and contrasted (2024)
Journal Article
Levine, T. R., & Street, C. N. H. (in press). Lie–truth judgments: adaptive lie detector account and truth-default theory compared and contrasted. Communication Theory, Article qtae008. https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtae008

Two contemporary theoretical perspectives explain when and how people make lie–truth judgments. The adaptive lie detector account (ALIED) and truth-default theory (TDT) are described, compared, and contrasted. ALIED and TDT come from different schola... Read More about Lie–truth judgments: adaptive lie detector account and truth-default theory compared and contrasted.

The heterogeneous processes of cheating: Attention evidence from two eye tracking experiments (2020)
Journal Article
Fosgaard, T., Jacobsen, C., & Street, C. (2021). The heterogeneous processes of cheating: Attention evidence from two eye tracking experiments. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 34(1), 131-139. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2200

Dishonesty erodes society. Although much is known about dishonesty, the process leading up to the decision of whether to be honest or dishonest is often assumed to be homogenous and is not well understood. In this paper, we take a more nuanced approa... Read More about The heterogeneous processes of cheating: Attention evidence from two eye tracking experiments.

A test of the micro‐expressions training tool: Does it improve lie detection? (2019)
Journal Article
Jordan, S., Brimbal, L., Wallace, D. B., Kassin, S. M., Hartwig, M., & Street, C. N. (2019). A test of the micro‐expressions training tool: Does it improve lie detection?. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 16(3), 222-235. https://doi.org/10.1002/jip.1532

The purpose of the study was to examine the effectiveness of the micro-expressions training tool (METT) in identifying and using micro-expressions to improve lie detection. Participants (n = 90) were randomly assigned to receive training in micro-exp... Read More about A test of the micro‐expressions training tool: Does it improve lie detection?.

Aligning Spinoza with Descartes: An informed Cartesian account of the truth bias (2016)
Journal Article
Street, C. N. H., & Kingstone, A. (2017). Aligning Spinoza with Descartes: An informed Cartesian account of the truth bias. British Journal of Psychology, 108(3), 453-466. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12210

There is a bias towards believing information is true rather than false. The Spinozan account claims there is an early, automatic bias towards believing. Only afterwards can people engage in an effortful re-evaluation and disbelieve the information.... Read More about Aligning Spinoza with Descartes: An informed Cartesian account of the truth bias.

Can the Unconscious Boost Lie-Detection Accuracy? (2016)
Journal Article
Street, C. N. H., & Vadillo, M. A. (2016). Can the Unconscious Boost Lie-Detection Accuracy?. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25(4), 246-250. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721416656348

Recently, a variety of methods have been used to show that unconscious processes can boost lie-detection accuracy. This article considers the latest developments in the context of research into unconscious cognition. Unconscious cognition has been un... Read More about Can the Unconscious Boost Lie-Detection Accuracy?.

ALIED: Humans as adaptive lie detectors. (2015)
Journal Article
Street, C. N. H. ALIED: Humans as adaptive lie detectors. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4(4), 335-343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2015.06.002

People make for poor lie detectors. They have accuracy rates comparable to a coin toss, and come with a set of systematic biases that sway the judgment. This pessimistic view stands in contrast to research showing that people make informed decisions... Read More about ALIED: Humans as adaptive lie detectors..

The focal account: Indirect lie detection need not access unconscious, implicit knowledge. (2015)
Journal Article
Street, C. N. H., & Richardson, D. C. The focal account: Indirect lie detection need not access unconscious, implicit knowledge. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 21(4), 342-355. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000058

People are poor lie detectors, but accuracy can be improved by making the judgment indirectly. In a typical demonstration, participants are not told that the experiment is about deception at all. Instead, they judge whether the speaker appears, say,... Read More about The focal account: Indirect lie detection need not access unconscious, implicit knowledge..

A simple algorithm for the offline recalibration of eye-tracking data through best-fitting linear transformation (2015)
Journal Article
Vadillo, M. A., Street, C. N. H., Beesley, T., & Shanks, D. R. (2015). A simple algorithm for the offline recalibration of eye-tracking data through best-fitting linear transformation. Behavior Research Methods, 47(4), 1365-1376. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-014-0544-1

Poor calibration and inaccurate drift correction can pose severe problems for eye-tracking experiments requiring high levels of accuracy and precision. We describe an algorithm for the offline correction of eye-tracking data. The algorithm conducts a... Read More about A simple algorithm for the offline recalibration of eye-tracking data through best-fitting linear transformation.

Are you hiding something from me? Uncertainty and judgments about the intentions of others (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Street, C. N. H., & Richardson, D. (2014). Are you hiding something from me? Uncertainty and judgments about the intentions of others.

We are skilled at reading other’s intentions –until they try to hide them. We are biased towards taking at face value what others say, but it is not clear why. One possibility is that we are uncertain, and make the decision by relying... Read More about Are you hiding something from me? Uncertainty and judgments about the intentions of others.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Expectations: How Base Rates Inform Lie-Truth Judgments: Base rate beliefs in lie detection (2014)
Journal Article
Street, C. N. H., & Richardson, D. C. (2015). Lies, Damn Lies, and Expectations: How Base Rates Inform Lie-Truth Judgments: Base rate beliefs in lie detection. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 29(1), 149-155. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3085

We are biased towards thinking that people are telling the truth. Our study represents the first test of how beliefs about the base rate of truths and lies affect this truth bias. Raters were told either 20, 50 or 80% of the speakers would be telling... Read More about Lies, Damn Lies, and Expectations: How Base Rates Inform Lie-Truth Judgments: Base rate beliefs in lie detection.