Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Communication Teacher
Publisher
Routledge
Publication Date
9-8-2024
Journal Article Version
Accepted Manuscript
First Page
1
Last Page
5
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Abstract
This activity helps students examine key elements of truth-default theory. Specifically, by participating in a deception detection game, which secretly prompts different teams to be more or less suspicious, students learn that people’s tendency to be “truth-biased” leads to lower accuracy when judging actual lies and higher accuracy when judging actual truths (i.e., “the veracity effect”).
Recommended Citation
Seiter, J. S. (2024). Trust everybody, but always cut the cards: An exercise for exploring truth bias and deception detection. Communication Teacher, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/17404622.2024.2396503
