What is it about?
We compared two approaches for detecting deception by applying them to alibi accounts for a staged crime. Both approaches, the Verifiability and Lexicon-Based approaches performed similarly well and outperformed the average performance for other deception detection methods.
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Why is it important?
As awareness grows of the deficiencies of other deception detection methods such as many nonverbal behavioral and physiological cues, other methods may come under consideration. Content analysis deception detection is one such promising avenue. As both the Verifiability and Lexicon-Based approaches performed similarly well, practioners considering adopting content analysis deception detection can consider adopting and weighing the practical benefits and limitations of such methods.
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I hope this article spreads awareness of underutilized, promising methods for deception detection that may be more reliable than other methods currently in circulation. There is an overreliance on the reading of nonverbal cues with detectors often being overly confident on their ability to detect deception using these cues. I think it is important to raise awareness of more objective and reliable methods.
Grant Pierce Dunn
Claremont Graduate University
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This page is a summary of: Deception Detection: Comparing the Lexicon-Based Approaches and Verifiability Approach, Criminal Justice and Behavior, November 2025, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/00938548251387225.
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