I Told You So! Verbal Cue Beliefs Are Associated with Truth Detection, but Not Lie Detection

Participants (N = 246) judged the credibility of truthful and deceptive autobiographical statements presented in one of three modalities: audio, transcript, or audiovisual. As in the original study, participants provided continuous credibility ratings; we additionally asked participants to make binary truth/lie judgments, allowing us to assess discrimination accuracy.

We replicated the original finding of a small but significant positive correlation between accurate verbal cue beliefs and the credibility ratings of truthful statements, but no such relationship for deceptive statements. A small association was also observed between accurate cue beliefs and truth discrimination accuracy. Contrary to our expectations, modality did not significantly influence truth/lie discrimination or credibility judgments.