Combining the Devil’s Advocate Approach and Verifiability Approach to Assess Veracity in Opinion Statements

Aim: We examined the ability to detect lying about opinions with Devil’s Advocate Approach and Verifiability Approach. Method: Interviewees were first asked an opinion eliciting question argue in favour of their alleged personal view. This was followed by a devil’s advocate against Since reasons that support rather than oppose are more readily available people’s minds, we expected truth tellers’ responses include information sound plausible, immediate, direct, clear question. In lie tellers these patterns be less pronounced. also report sources could checked verify opinion. verifiable tellers. A total 150 participants expressed true or false societal issue. Results: Supporting hypothesis, differences plausibility, immediacy, directness, clarity pronounced (answers sounded answers question). Verifiable yielded no effect. Conclusions: The is useful tool lies opinions.