Response time concealed information test using fillers in cybercrime and concealed identity scenarios

Autor(en)

Gáspár Lukács, Ulrich Ansorge

Abstrakt

The Response Time Concealed Information Test (RT-CIT) can reveal that a person recognises a relevant item (e.g., a murder weapon) among other control items, based on slower responses to the former compared to the latter ones. To date, the RT-CIT has been predominantly examined only in the context of scenarios that are very unlikely in real life, while sporadic assessment has shown that it suffers from low diagnostic accuracy in more realistic scenarios. In our study, we validated the RT-CIT in the new, realistic, and very topical mock scenario of a cybercrime (Study 1, n = 614; Study 2; n = 553), finding significant though moderate effects. At the same time (and expanded with a concealed identity scenario; Study 3, n = 250), we assessed the validity and generalizability of the filler items presented in the RT-CIT: We found similar diagnostic accuracies when using specific, generic, and even nonverbal items. However, the relatively low diagnostic accuracy in case of the cybercrime scenario reemphasizes the importance of assessments in realistic scenarios as well as the need for further improving the RT-CIT.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Psychologie der Kognition, Emotion und Methoden

Journal

Memory

Band

31

Seiten

767-783

Anzahl der Seiten

17

ISSN

0965-8211

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2195179

Publikationsdatum

2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501002 Angewandte Psychologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Psychology(all), Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/response-time-concealed-information-test-using-fillers-in-cybercrime-and-concealed-identity-scenarios(b0e67614-7437-455d-afb2-2b6dc9b1e1eb).html