Practitioners ask whether verbal veracity cues are (i) diagnostic across populations and resistant to countermeasures. We examined this by merging the three datasets reported Vrij, Leal et al. (2020, 2022).Participants from Lebanon (n = 187), Mexico 205) South-Korea 239) discussed a city-trip they had made (truth tellers, n 328) or up story (lie 303) about such trip. Some participants 325) were...

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, c...