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Verifiability Approach: Applications in Different Judgmental Settings

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The verifiability approach (VA) presents a new content-based tool for distinguishing between truths and lies. The VA is based on the finding that truth-tellers provide more verifiable details than liars, such that the verifiability level of an interviewee’s account can be used as an indicator of veracity. This chapter discusses the applicability of the VA, originally developed for assessing the veracity of suspect accounts within police interrogation setting, to different judgmental settings. I begin with a detailed description of the original VA protocol within its theoretical framework. I then move on to discuss key differences between several judgmental settings, and how these differences influence application of the VA, as well as the adjustments required to meet the VA’s potential most effectively.

This research was supported by the Israel Science Foundation grant (Grant No. 372/14).

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Nahari, G. (2019). Verifiability Approach: Applications in Different Judgmental Settings. In: Docan-Morgan, T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Deceptive Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96334-1_11

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