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ArticleRoyal Society open science2021

A liar and a copycat: nonverbal coordination increases with lie difficulty.

Sophie Van Der Zee, Paul Taylor, Ruth Wong, John Dixon, Tarek Menacere

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Mining Bodily Cues to Deception.Journal of nonverbal behavior · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Sophie Van Der ZeeErasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-3457-5916
Paul TaylorLancaster University, Lancaster, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8743-7667
Ruth WongLancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
John DixonThe Open University, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3972-6437
Tarek MenacereLancaster University, Lancaster, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Studies of the nonverbal correlates of deception tend to examine liars' behaviours as independent from the behaviour of the interviewer, ignoring joint action. To address this gap, experiment 1 examined the effect of telling a truth and easy, difficult and very difficult lies on nonverbal coordination. Nonverbal coordination was measured automatically by applying a dynamic time warping algorithm to motion-capture data. In experiment 2, interviewees also received instructions that influenced the attention they paid to either the nonverbal or verbal behaviour of the interviewer. Results from both experiments found that interviewer-interviewee nonverbal coordination increased with lie difficulty. This increase was not influenced by the degree to which interviewees paid attention to their nonverbal behaviour, nor by the degree of interviewer's suspicion. Our findings are consistent with the broader proposition that people rely on automated processes such as mimicry when under cognitive load.

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cognitive loaddeceptionmimicrymotion capturenonverbal coordination

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PMID33614063
PMCPMC7890472

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