Dr. Bruno Verschuere's public lecture "Memory detection 2.0. from the lab to the web"

On January, 19 at 13.00 Lossi 36-214 dr. Bruno Verschuere's (University of Amsterdam, Ghent University, Maastricht University) public lecture "Memory detection 2.0. from the lab to the web".

Summary:

In recent years, the cognitive view on deception has become increasingly popular. This cognitive approach has also brought about renewed attention for reaction times (RTs) as a cue to deception. As reaction times can be voluntarily controlled, the validity of RTs is controversial. Through meta-analytic research, we found that – under specific conditions – reaction times can provide an accurate deception index. The meta-analysis was, however, limited by small sampled studies and possible publication bias. To advance RT research, we started to explore whether RTs can provide a valid deception index when we move from the lab to the web. Online lie detection has tremendous potential both for research (fast and efficient collection of large datasets) and for practice (such as remote testing, and testing multiple subjects (even simultaneously). I will discuss the results of our first online lie detection studies. Specifically, we examined whether we could use RTs to detect concealed information on the web, an application that we have called ´Memory Detection 2.0´. The results of 5 studies, encompassing more than 2500 subjects, indicate that reaction times can also provide a fast and accurate deception index in web-based memory detection.

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