Lack of conviction
Definition
A SCAN category covering hedging phrases like 'I think', 'I believe', 'I don't remember', which Sapir proposes signal deception because a person certain of the truth would state it without qualification.
Related terms
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- The statistical challenge facing any deception-detection method: if only a minority of statements examined are actually deceptive, even a method that is...
- Extraneous information
- Information in a statement that the SCAN analyst judges to be beyond the stated scope of the question. SCAN treats such additions...
- Ground truth
- In deception-detection research, independently verified knowledge of whether a statement was truthful or deceptive, established through confession, DNA, or other objective means,...
- Pronoun shift
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- SCAN (Scientific Content Analysis)
- A proprietary statement-analysis method developed by Avinoam Sapir that claims to identify deceptive content in written statements through analysis of linguistic features...
Explained in
- SCAN Statement Analysis: Claims, Methods, and the Scientific CritiqueA SCAN category covering hedging phrases like 'I think', 'I believe', 'I don't remember', which Sapir proposes signal deception because a person certain of the...