The Role of Anxiety in Deception
The Role of Anxiety in Deception
Chapter 6: How to Detect Deception in Investigation Interviews
Posted by Dawn Lomer on July 25th, 2011
Chapter 1: History of Detecting Deception
Chapter 2: Reading the Signs of Deception
Chapter 5: Language Indicators of Deception
Chapter 6: The Role of Anxiety in Deception
Anyone being interviewed will have some amount of anxiety. It’s important to determine whether someone’s anxiety is simply attached to the interview or the fact that they did something wrong.
Deception by concealment creates little anxiety because the subject is actually telling the truth. Similarly, someone who is being vague or deflecting questions is unlikely to show significant anxiety. It’s usually when someone is falsifying that their anxiety levels increase as they become more vulnerable.
