Cross-cultural Differences in Beliefs About Lie Detection: A Comparison of Arab and Non-Arab Australians (Walaa Katta honour's thesis)

Walaa Katta's honours thesis. This study utilised an open-ended question and a 10-item questionnaire created by the Global Deception Research Team (2006) to explore potential lie detection method differences between a sample of Arab- (n = 102) and non-Arab-Australians (n = 70). The results showed that while most participants in both groups were confident in their ability to detect deceit, Arab-Australians thought they could detect lies significantly more than non-Arab Australians. Both Arab- and non-Arab participants tended to rely on non-verbal behaviour to detect lies; however, there were some differences, some of which were surprising given purported cultural differences with some non-verbal behaviours.

瓦拉·卡特（Walaa Katta）的荣誉学位论文。本研究采用由全球欺骗研究团队（Global Deception Research Team）于2006年编制的开放式问题与10项目问卷，以102名阿拉伯裔澳大利亚人和70名非阿拉伯裔澳大利亚人为研究样本，探究二者在测谎方法上的潜在差异。研究结果显示，尽管两组绝大多数参与者均对自身的测谎能力充满信心，但阿拉伯裔澳大利亚人认为自身的测谎能力显著优于非阿拉伯裔澳大利亚人。两组参与者均倾向于借助非言语行为开展测谎，但二者存在一定差异；其中部分差异出人意料，考虑到部分非言语行为据称存在文化差异。