Paul Mazziotta

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University of Wollongong

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Florida International University

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National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"

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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart)

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Università Di Foggia

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IMPLEMENTING THE SCAnR SYSTEM, A SIX CHANNEL ANALYSIS SYSTEM OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF POTENTIAL DECEPTION IN INTELLIGENCE INTERROGATION

Diplomacy & Intelligence / Revistă de Științe Sociale, Diplomație și Studii de Securitate, 2019

ARTICLE Lying Words: Predicting Deception From Linguistic Styles

Telling lies often requires creating a story about an experience or attitude that does not exist.... more Telling lies often requires creating a story about an experience or attitude that does not exist. As a result, false stories may be qualitatively different from true stories. The current project investigated the features of linguistic style that distinguish between true and false stories. In an analysis of five independent samples, a computer-based text analysis program correctly classified liars and truth-tellers at a rate of 67% when the topic was constant and a rate of 61% overall. Compared to truth-tellers, liars showed lower cognitive complexity, used fewer self-references and other-references, and used more negative emotion words.

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