Assessing Deception in Questionnaire Surveys With Eye-Tracking

Deceit often occurs in questionnaire surveys, which leads to the misreporting of data and poor reliability. The purpose of this study is to explore whether eye-tracking could contribute to the detection of deception in questionnaire surveys, and whether the eye behaviors that appeared in instructed...

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Autores principales: Xinyue Fang, Yiteng Sun, Xinyi Zheng, Xinrong Wang, Xuemei Deng, Mei Wang
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:e851c10e42ae40fe897bd598872874832021-11-22T07:29:09ZAssessing Deception in Questionnaire Surveys With Eye-Tracking1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.774961https://doaj.org/article/e851c10e42ae40fe897bd598872874832021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.774961/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078Deceit often occurs in questionnaire surveys, which leads to the misreporting of data and poor reliability. The purpose of this study is to explore whether eye-tracking could contribute to the detection of deception in questionnaire surveys, and whether the eye behaviors that appeared in instructed lying still exist in spontaneous lying. Two studies were conducted to explore eye movement behaviors in instructed and spontaneous lying conditions. The results showed that pupil size and fixation behaviors are both reliable indicators to detect lies in questionnaire surveys. Blink and saccade behaviors do not seem to predict deception. Deception resulted in increased pupil size, fixation count and duration. Meanwhile, respondents focused on different areas of the questionnaire when lying versus telling the truth. Furthermore, in the actual deception situation, the linear support vector machine (SVM) deception classifier achieved an accuracy of 74.09%. In sum, this study indicates the eye-tracking signatures of lying are not restricted to instructed deception, demonstrates the potential of using eye-tracking to detect deception in questionnaire surveys, and contributes to the questionnaire surveys of sensitive issues.Xinyue FangYiteng SunXinyi ZhengXinrong WangXuemei DengMei WangFrontiers Media S.A.articlelie detectioneye behaviorquestionnaire surveysdeceptioneye-trackingPsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
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collection DOAJ
language EN
topic lie detection
eye behavior
questionnaire surveys
deception
eye-tracking
Psychology
BF1-990
spellingShingle lie detection
eye behavior
questionnaire surveys
deception
eye-tracking
Psychology
BF1-990
Xinyue Fang
Yiteng Sun
Xinyi Zheng
Xinrong Wang
Xuemei Deng
Mei Wang
Assessing Deception in Questionnaire Surveys With Eye-Tracking
description Deceit often occurs in questionnaire surveys, which leads to the misreporting of data and poor reliability. The purpose of this study is to explore whether eye-tracking could contribute to the detection of deception in questionnaire surveys, and whether the eye behaviors that appeared in instructed lying still exist in spontaneous lying. Two studies were conducted to explore eye movement behaviors in instructed and spontaneous lying conditions. The results showed that pupil size and fixation behaviors are both reliable indicators to detect lies in questionnaire surveys. Blink and saccade behaviors do not seem to predict deception. Deception resulted in increased pupil size, fixation count and duration. Meanwhile, respondents focused on different areas of the questionnaire when lying versus telling the truth. Furthermore, in the actual deception situation, the linear support vector machine (SVM) deception classifier achieved an accuracy of 74.09%. In sum, this study indicates the eye-tracking signatures of lying are not restricted to instructed deception, demonstrates the potential of using eye-tracking to detect deception in questionnaire surveys, and contributes to the questionnaire surveys of sensitive issues.
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author Xinyue Fang
Yiteng Sun
Xinyi Zheng
Xinrong Wang
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Mei Wang
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Yiteng Sun
Xinyi Zheng
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title Assessing Deception in Questionnaire Surveys With Eye-Tracking
title_short Assessing Deception in Questionnaire Surveys With Eye-Tracking
title_full Assessing Deception in Questionnaire Surveys With Eye-Tracking
title_fullStr Assessing Deception in Questionnaire Surveys With Eye-Tracking
title_full_unstemmed Assessing Deception in Questionnaire Surveys With Eye-Tracking
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