Detecting concealed language knowledge via response times

Autor(en)

Gáspár Lukács, Claudia Kawai, Ulrich Ansorge, Anna Fekete

Abstrakt

In the present study, we introduce a response-time-based test that can be used to detect concealed language knowledge, for various potential applications (e.g., espionage, border control, counter-terrorism). In this test, the examinees are asked to respond to repeatedly presented items, including a real word in the language tested (suspected to be known by the examinee) and several pseudowords. A person who understands the tested language recognizes the real word and tends to have slower responses to it as compared to the pseudowords, and, thereby, can be distinguished from those who do not understand the language. This was demonstrated in a series of experiments including diverse participants tested for their native language (German, Hungarian, Polish, Russian; n = 312), for second language (English, German; n = 66), and several control groups (n = 192).

Organisation(en)

Institut für Philosophie, Institut für Psychologie der Kognition, Emotion und Methoden, Forschungsverbund Kognitionswissenschaft, Forschungsplattform Mediatisierte Lebenswelten: Die narrativen Konstruktionen, Verbindungen und Aneignungen Jugendlicher

Journal

Applied Linguistics Review

Band

14

Seiten

1027-1044

Anzahl der Seiten

18

ISSN

1868-6303

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2020-0130

Publikationsdatum

09-2021

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501020 Rechtspsychologie, 501006 Experimentalpsychologie, 602026 Kognitive Linguistik

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/detecting-concealed-language-knowledge-via-response-times(7684ee6a-5414-4d50-a440-b39c29dcd4a4).html