Um ... they were wearing ...: The effect of deception on specific hand gestures

• Published in: Legal and criminological psychology Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 336 - 345
• Main Authors: Hillman, Jackie, Vrij, Aldert, Mann, Samantha
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2012; British Psychological Society
• Subjects: Credibility; Criminology; Deception; Games; Gestures; Lying; Movement; Nonverbal communication; Researchers; Speech; Truth

Purpose. Non‐verbal communication researchers have identified specific categories of hand gestures but deception researchers typically ignore these. This experiment refined and developed some of these categories and examined whether there is a difference in the frequency of speech prompting and rhyt...