ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Your Lies Are the Truth: Cross-Race Judgments of Veracity
- Elena Trifiletti
University of Verona - Loris Vezzali
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - Gian Antonio Di Bernardo
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - Luca Andrighetto
University of Genova - Veronica Cocco
University of Parma
Abstract
Lie detection research has devoted little attention to whether accuracy of veracity judgements is moderated by judges' and suspects' racial group. Across four experiments, we found that cross-race accuracy is lower than own-race accuracy and unrelated to prejudice measures.
Race and Ethnicity