The effect of interpreters on eliciting information, cues to deceit, and rapport
Interpreters are being increasingly used to bridge the language barrier between investigators and interviewees. The effect that interpreters have on investigative interviews has been neglected in both the investigative interviewing and deception detection literature. Chapter 1 introduces the topics of interpreters, deception, and rapport and emphasises the importance of studying them in investigative settings. Chapter 2 describes the first experiment, which explored the effect of interpreters on eliciting information, cues to deceit and rapport. Truth tellers and liars spoke about their real or pretend job. Interviewees either spoke in their native language (English), a non-native language (English), or through an interpreter in their native language (in Korean, Chinese, Hispanic, Arabic, or Urdu). The interpreter interpreted the intervieweeâs answers by short consecutive interpretation (when the interpreter translates all turns of talk sentence by sentence) or long consecutive interpretation (when the interpreter translates segments of talk which may vary considerably in length). Findings indicated that interviewees who spoke through an interpreter provided less detail than interviewees who spoke in their
Ewens, Sarah
Psychology
The effect of interpreters on eliciting information, cues to deceit, and rapport. Interpreters are being increasingly used to bridge the language barrier between investigators and interviewees. The effect that interpreters have on investigative interviews has been neglected in both the investigative interviewing and deception detection literature. Chapter 1 introduces the topics of interpreters, deception, and rapport and emphasises the importance of studying them in investigative settings. Chapter 2 describes the first experiment, which explored the effect of interpreters on eliciting information, cues to deceit and rapport. Truth tellers and liars spoke about their real or pretend job. Interviewees either spoke in their native language (English), a non-native language (English), or through an interpreter in their native language (in Korean, Chinese, Hispanic, Arabic, or Urdu). The interpreter interpreted the intervieweeâs answers by short consecutive interpretation (when the interpreter translates all turns of talk sentence by sentence) or long consecutive interpretation (when the interpreter translates segments of talk which may vary considerably in length). Findings indicated that interviewees who spoke through an interpreter provided less detail than interviewees who spoke in their
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