Abstract
A fairly robust finding in the deception literature is that he-tellers show more negative emotion than truth-tellers Ekman (1985), however. has reasoned that a specific type of negative emotion - anger - is especially difficult to feign and therefore should be mare prevalent in truth-tellers who are falsely accused of a transgression than in lie-tellers who are guilty To our knowledge. Ekman's prediction has not yet been empirically tested By comparing the verbal and nonverbal cues associated with truths and lies across a number of he-eliciting situations, we demonstrate that truth-tellers accused of a wrongdoing do show more anger, both verbally and nonverbally, than he-tellers accused of the same act, but only in situations whet e students choose to commit a transgression (or not) and actually believe themselves to be in trouble Results underlie the importance of taking into consideration the type of he being told in order to accurately predict deceptive cues (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc All rights reserved