TY - JOUR
T1 - Synchronization of Nonverbal Behaviors in Detecting Mediated and Non-mediated Deception
AU - Dunbar, Norah E.
AU - Jensen, Matthew L.
AU - Tower, Debra Conly
AU - Burgoon, Judee K.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This research was funded by a grant from the Center for Information Technology Research, a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. The authors would like to thank their student research assistants, Bradley Adame, Kylie J. Harrison, Katherine M. Kelley, Lindsey Harvell, and Abigail Allums Kauffman for their assistance with the coding and data collection.
PY - 2014/9
Y1 - 2014/9
N2 - Videoconferencing (VC) is changing the way people communicate in a variety of fields including education, medicine, business, and even interpersonal relationships. In this study, we investigate the effects of the modality of communication, whether through face-to-face (FtF) or VC, on the ability of interactants to develop and maintain nonverbal synchrony. This study is an analysis of 101 interviews between students and professional interviewers in which some of the participants were induced to cheat on a task with a confederate. The results revealed that the VC modality hampered the interactional synchrony of the dyads, especially during the phases of questioning when suspicion-inducing or accusatory questioning was used. For global ratings of synchrony, the greatest impact of modality was for participants whose lies were not sanctioned by the interviewer, suggesting that the VC modality negatively affected the most skilled deceivers. In addition, interactional synchrony improved in the final, accusatory, phase of the interview when subjects confessed, particularly in the FtF modality. The effects of the interviewer and the question type are also discussed.
AB - Videoconferencing (VC) is changing the way people communicate in a variety of fields including education, medicine, business, and even interpersonal relationships. In this study, we investigate the effects of the modality of communication, whether through face-to-face (FtF) or VC, on the ability of interactants to develop and maintain nonverbal synchrony. This study is an analysis of 101 interviews between students and professional interviewers in which some of the participants were induced to cheat on a task with a confederate. The results revealed that the VC modality hampered the interactional synchrony of the dyads, especially during the phases of questioning when suspicion-inducing or accusatory questioning was used. For global ratings of synchrony, the greatest impact of modality was for participants whose lies were not sanctioned by the interviewer, suggesting that the VC modality negatively affected the most skilled deceivers. In addition, interactional synchrony improved in the final, accusatory, phase of the interview when subjects confessed, particularly in the FtF modality. The effects of the interviewer and the question type are also discussed.
KW - Computer-mediated communication
KW - Deception detection
KW - Interpersonal adaptation
KW - Nonverbal synchrony
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U2 - 10.1007/s10919-014-0179-z
DO - 10.1007/s10919-014-0179-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84905110428
SN - 0191-5886
VL - 38
SP - 355
EP - 376
JO - Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
JF - Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
IS - 3
ER -