Beliefs about Deception

An online survey assessing Australian residents' beliefs about non-verbal behaviour and deception, along with their opinions regarding cross-cultural deception detection. <div><br></div><div>A Qualtrics online survey with a replication of the ten questions used by The Global Deception Research Team (GDRT) (2006, p. 72). Additional free-text response questions were: <a><i>Do you think it is harder to tell when someone from a different cultural background is lying?</i> and: <i>Why do you think it would, or might, be harder for people from different cultural backgrounds to tell if someone was lying?</i></a><div><a><i><br></i></a></div><div><a>Five hundred and thirty-three Australian residents completed the questionnaire fully, with five of the GDRT replicated questions having 534 responses.

The youngest respondent was 16 and the oldest 86 (<i>M=</i>36.4, SD= 15.38).</a></div><div><a><br></a></div><div><a> Five hundred and three people answered the question: <i>Why do you think it would, or might, be harder for people from different cultural backgrounds to tell if someone was lying?</i><i><br></i></a></div></div>