Millennia of legal content criteria of lies and truths: wisdom or common-sense folly?

[EN]Long before experimental psychology, religious writers, orators, and playwrights described examples of lie detection based on the verbal content of statements. Legal scholars collected evidence from individual cases and systematized them as “rules of evidence”. Some of these resemble content cue...

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Autores: Sporer, Siegfried L., Masip Pallejá, Jaume
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/153162
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/153162
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:History
Deception detection
Verbal cues
Verbal content cues
Content
Field study
Perjury cases
Deception cues
6114 Psicología social
6114.09 Psicología Forense
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Sumario:[EN]Long before experimental psychology, religious writers, orators, and playwrights described examples of lie detection based on the verbal content of statements. Legal scholars collected evidence from individual cases and systematized them as “rules of evidence”. Some of these resemble content cues used in contemporary research, while others point to working hypotheses worth exploring. To examine their potential validity, we re-analyzed data from a quasi-experimental study of 95 perjury cases. The outcomes support the fruitfulness of this approach. Travelling back in time searching for testable ideas about content cues to truth and deception may be worthwhile.