Instructions

In this task you will watch a series of videos of people lying and telling the truth. At the end of each video you will be asked to make a judgement about the truthfulness of each statement and your confidence level for your decision.

In this task you will watch a series of videos of people lying and telling the truth. The video will be shown in 8 second clips. At the end of each clip you will be asked to make a judgement about the truthfulness of the video and your confidence level for your decision.

In this task you will watch a series of videos of people lying and telling the truth. You will be allowed to stop the video at any point once you've reached a decision of whether they are lying or telling the truth. At the end of each video you will be asked to make a judgement about the truthfulness of each statement and your confidence level for your decision.

In this task you will watch a series of 2 second video clips of people lying and telling the truth. At the end of each video you will be asked to make a judgement about the truthfulness of each statement and your confidence level for your decision. Please answer as quickly as possible.

Demographic Survey

Age Gender Race Years of Education Place of Birth Religiosity/political ideology/SES

Thank you for your participation in our study. Your accuracy rate on the task was 50%. In the lie detection literature, people on average have an accuracy rate of 54%. Unfortunately due to the nature of our study we cannot give specifics on what videos were lies and what videos were truths. If you are interested in learning more about our study, please give us your email address below and we will send you an email with the results of the study once we have concluded. If you have any questions or concerns, please email linda.nguyen@utdallas.edu.