M. A. Gravitz
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A meta-analysis was conducted of research on the relation between judges' accuracy at detecting deception and their confidence in their judgments, and confidence was positively correlated with judges' tendency to perceive messages as truthful, regardless of the actual truthfulness of the messages.
Abstract
A meta-analysis was conducted of research on the relation between judges' accuracy at detecting deception and their confidence in their judgments. A total of 18 independent samples revealed an average weighted accuracy-confidence correlation of .04, a relation not significantly differentfrom zero. However, confidence waspositively correlated with judges' tendency to perceive messages as truthful, regardless of the actual truthfulness ofthe messages. Judges were also more confident when they really
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GRAVITZ, M. A. Detection of deception. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL HYPNOSIS, 2007, 49: 312–313.