Date of Award

2010-01-01

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy

Department

Psychology

Advisor(s)

Christian A. Meissner

Abstract

The present study examined whether investigators can be trained to elicit and detect cues to deception. The study included two training conditions and a control condition. Participants in the virtual Human Intelligent Tutoring System (vHITS) conditions completed a training program for deception detection and investigative interviewing. The primary components of this training were one-on-one interaction with a virtual human and tutoring tailored to specific participant responses. Participants in the Computer Based Training (CBT) conditions completed a comparable training program for deception detection and investigative interviewing. However, this program provided a more passive training environment with no interaction between student and tutor. Participants in the control conditions received no training. The performance of all three conditions on a deception detection task and an investigative interviewing task were compared. Results showed significant within-group differences between pre-test and post-test performance for both training conditions on all measures. However, results did not show significant between-groups differences at post-test for the training conditions on any measure. Possible explanations of these results are discussed as well as implications for future research.

Language

en

Provenance

Received from ProQuest

File Size

96 pages

File Format

application/pdf

Rights Holder

Justin Albrechtsen

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