Sketching as a Technique to Eliciting Information and Cues to Deceit in Interpreter-Based Interviews

Aldert Vrij, Sharon Leal, Ronald P. Fisher, Samantha Mann, Gary Dalton, Eunkyung Jo, Alla Shaboltas, Maria Khaleeva, Juliana Granskaya, Kate Houston

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Abstract

We tested the effect of sketching while providing a narrative on eliciting information, eliciting cues to deceit, and lie detection in interpreter-absent and interpreter-present interviews. A total of 204 participants from the USA (Hispanic participants only), Russia, and the Republic of Korea were interviewed in their native language by native interviewers or by a British interviewer through an interpreter. Truth-tellers discussed a trip they had made; liars fabricated a story about such a trip. Half of the participants were instructed to sketch while narrating; the other half received no instruction. Sketching resulted in more details provided. It also elicited cues to deceit: complications and new details differentiated truth-tellers from liars in the Sketching-present condition only. Liars and truth-tellers were more correctly classified in the Sketching-present than in the Sketching-absent condition. More complications and more common-knowledge details were reported without than with an interpreter.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)303-313
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
Volume7
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2018

Keywords

  • Deception
  • Drawing
  • Information gathering
  • Interpreter
  • Non-native speakers

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