Nonverbal Disclosure of Deception in Urban Koreans

Abstract

The nature of nonverbal disclosure of deception was experimentally examined. Stimulus persons, who were led to be verbally truthful or deceptive, were 28 male and female urban Koreans in three age groups: first graders, seventh graders, and college-age students. They were secretly videotaped, and their nonverbal facial expressions were analyzed by adult Korean judges. Results showed that all stimulus persons, except the female seventh graders, were able to be successfully deceptive nonverbally. However, the nature of the successful deception varied according to the age and sex of the stimulus person. The female college students were the most successful at recreating a veridical response, while the first grade females and all the males appeared more pleased when being deceptive than when being truthful.