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.