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King, Josiah P. J.; Loy, Jia E.; Corley, Martin – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
Where the veracity of a statement is in question, listeners tend to interpret disfluency as signaling dishonesty. Previous research in deception suggests that this results from a speaker model, linking lying to cognitive effort and effort to disfluency. However, the disfluency-lying bias occurs very quickly: Might listeners instead simply…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Inferences, Deception, Context Effect