The effects of sketching while narrating on information elicitation and deception detection in multiple interviews

Sketching while narrating is effective for eliciting information and veracity cues in single interviews. In the current research, we tested this technique multiple Participants were interviewed three times over weeks about a genuine (truth tellers) or fabricated (lie memorable event. They sketched Week 1, 2, Weeks 1 not at all (verbal statement only). Statements coded total, core, peripheral, common knowledge details, self-handicapping strategies, complications, plausibility, proportions of complications core details. third interview across interviews, Sketch instruction resulted higher proportion Truth tellers reported more total details fewer exhibited than lie tellers. tellers' stories also sounded plausible stories. The interaction effects significant. Thus, sketching seemed to have similar effect on truth study.