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Levine, Timothy R. and Hee Sun Park. 2017. The effects of truth–lie base-rates on deception detection accuracy in Korea. Asian Journal of Communication 27 (5) : 554–562.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

Two experiments provided the first tests of the Park-Levine Probability Model in an intercultural context. The Park-Levine Model forecasts a linear relationship between truth–lie base-rates in messages judged and the proportion of correct truth-lie judgments. Korean students watched and evaluated videotapes of American students denying that they cheated on a task. The proportion of honest and deceptive denials was experimentally varied to be predominantly honest, equally honest and deceptive, or predominantly deceptive. A second experiment elucidated the results of the first experiment by providing a stronger base-rate manipulation. The data were consistent with the prediction that as proportion of judged messages is increasingly honest, there is a corresponding linear increase in accurate truth–lie discrimination. These results add to a growing number of findings displaying the cross- and intercultural applicability of Truth-Default Theory.