Attentional avoidance from guilty knowledge for the detection of deception: using an eye-tracking device

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Event Abstract Back to Event Attentional avoidance from guilty knowledge for the detection of deception: using an eye-tracking device Jiwon Kim1* and Jang-Han Lee1 1 Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea Detection of deception using physiological techniques has been widely utilized in a forensic area. The Guilty Knowledge Test (GKT) using psychophysiological activities was developed to detect the knowledge about a crime that a person does not want to reveal. A previous study focused on attentional avoidance from crime-related stimulus using a probe classification task, for the GKT. Given this, we investigated whether attentional avoidance from the crime-related stimulus would appear in guilty participants using an eye-tracking device. Forty participants (19 guilty and 21 innocent) performed two different missions at the same computer lab. The first experimenter ordered the guilty group to steal a wallet from an assistant’s coat, while the innocent group to send an e-mail to the experimenter using a computer on the assistant’s desk when the assistant stepped out. After the each mission completed, all participants had to say “no” when were asked if they committed a crime. All of them were presented 12 pairs of crime-relevant, crime-irrelevant, and neutral pictures in random orders and monitored their eye movements by an eye-tracking device. The results indicated that compared to the crime-relevant pictures, the guilty group gazed neutral pictures significantly longer than the innocent group. That is, the guilty deliberately watched neutral pictures to pretend as if they were not involved in the crime. This finding of attentional avoidance in the guilty group provides an additional index to develop GKT in the lie detection. Keywords: Attention, Eye-tracking Conference: XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI), Palma, Mallorca, Spain, 25 Sep - 29 Sep, 2011. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Poster Sessions: Neurophysiology of Cognition and Attention Citation: Kim J and Lee J (2011). Attentional avoidance from guilty knowledge for the detection of deception: using an eye-tracking device. Conference Abstract: XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI). doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2011.207.00462 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 25 Nov 2011; Published Online: 28 Nov 2011. * Correspondence: Dr. Jiwon Kim, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, jiwonn0@gmail.com Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Jiwon Kim Jang-Han Lee Google Jiwon Kim Jang-Han Lee Google Scholar Jiwon Kim Jang-Han Lee PubMed Jiwon Kim Jang-Han Lee Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.