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Psychological Evaluations of Deception
Bond, Charles F. Jr; Atoum, Adnan Omar (2000). International deception. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. Vol. 26(3), 385-395.
This article describes three studies of international deception. Americans, Jordanians, and Indians were videotaped while lying and telling the truth, and the resulting tapes were judged for deception by other Americans, Jordanians, and Indians. The results showed that lies could be detected across cultures. They were detected across cultures that shared a language and across cultures that did not, and by illiterates as well as by university students. Perceivers showed no general tendency to judge persons from other countries as deceptive; in fact, they often judged foreigners to be more truthful than compatriots. There was, however, some evidence for a language-based ethnocentrism when perceivers are judging the deceptiveness of a series of people from the same multilingual culture.
Bond, Charles F; Berry, Diane S; Omar, Adnan (1994). The kernel of truth in judgments of deceptiveness. Basic & Applied Social Psychology. Vol. 15(4), 523-534.
This article describes an investigation of the relationship between appearance-based impressions of honesty and individuals' willingness to engage in deceptive behaviors. Neutral-expression photographs were taken of 133 study participants, and these photographs were judged by other participants ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Appendix 4: psychology of deception.