未经评估:成年人通常对陈述的真实性缺乏判断力,需要检测谎言的替代方法。人类测谎仪的一种替代方法是使用基于计算机的语言分析,这可能是一种更可靠的检测不诚实的方法。此外,虽然以前的研究已经检查了通常发展中的儿童和成人之间的语言差异,“真实和不诚实的报告,迄今为止,还没有研究检查受虐待的儿童是否表现出不同的不诚实语言线索。因此,目前的研究检查了虐待和未虐待儿童的语言和句法线索儿童的真实和不诚实的报告。
未经批准:9至12岁,其中一半人受到虐待,与同盟国玩电脑游戏:一半的孩子经历了越轨(即,玩禁止的游戏并使计算机崩溃),并被教导隐瞒它,一半的孩子没有经历过犯(即,只是玩电脑游戏)。然后对所有儿童进行了采访。本研究使用自动语言和句法分析软件来比较儿童的真实报告(未发生过犯)与不诚实报告。
UNASSIGNED:结果表明,虐待和未虐待儿童的不诚实指标没有差异。不诚实的记者使用更多的第一人称复数代词和认知机制术语,与真实的记者相比,语法上复杂的报道较少。最后,第一人称复数代词,认知机制术语,句法复杂度对儿童报告的准确性进行了准确分类(74.2%)。当前的发现提供了不诚实(句法复杂性)的新指标,并表明典型发展中人群的指标可能适用于教练发生时受到虐待的儿童。
UNASSIGNED: Adults are typically poor judges of the veracity of statements, requiring the need for alternative methods for detecting lies. One alternative method to human lie-detectors is using computer-based linguistic analysis which may present a more reliable method for detecting dishonesty. Moreover, while previous research has examined linguistic differences between typically developing children\'s and adults\' truthful and dishonest
reports, no study to date has examined whether maltreated children exhibit different linguistic cues to dishonesty. Thus, the current study examined maltreated and nonmaltreated children\'s linguistic and syntactic cues to children\'s truthful and dishonest reports.
UNASSIGNED: Nine- to 12-year-olds, half of whom were maltreated, played a computer game with a confederate: half of the children experienced a transgression (i.e., playing a forbidden game and crashing the computer) and were coached to conceal it, and half of the children experienced no transgression (i.e., simply played a computer game). All children were then interviewed about the event. The current study utilized automated linguistic and syntactic analysis software to compare children\'s truthful
reports (no transgression occurred) with dishonest
reports.
UNASSIGNED: Results indicated that maltreated and non-maltreated children did not differ in their indicators of dishonesty. Dishonest reporters used more first-person plural pronouns and cognitive mechanism terms and had less syntactically complex
reports compared to truthful reporters. Finally, first-personal plural pronouns, cognitive mechanism terms, and syntactic complexity accurately classified (74.2%) the veracity of children\'s
reports. The current findings present a new indicator of dishonesty (syntactic complexity) and suggest that indicators from typically developing populations may apply to maltreated children when coaching occurred.