Effects of self‐monitoring and familiarity on deception detection¹

This research was supported, in part, by NSF‐RANN Grant G1#38398, Gerald R. Miller and Fredrick S. Siebert, principal investigators, and NSF Grant #APR75–15815, Gerald R. Miller, principal investigator. Reprint requests and other correspondence concerning the article should be sent to David R. Brandt, Interpersonal and Public Communication, North Texas State University, Denton, Texas, 76203.

This study investigated the effects of familiarity and self‐monitoring on observer accuracy in deception detection. Observers varying in self‐reported self‐monitoring made judgments of truthfulness or lying after either exposure or no exposure to segments of a communicator's truthful behavior. Results indicated that observers familiar with a communicator's truthful behavior were significantly more accurate than those who were not; that accuracy increased significantly as self‐reported self‐monitoring increased; and that there was no significant interaction between self‐monitoring and familiarity.

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This research was supported, in part, by NSF‐RANN Grant G1#38398, Gerald R. Miller and Fredrick S. Siebert, principal investigators, and NSF Grant #APR75–15815, Gerald R. Miller, principal investigator. Reprint requests and other correspondence concerning the article should be sent to David R. Brandt, Interpersonal and Public Communication, North Texas State University, Denton, Texas, 76203.