Earlier detection facilitates skilled responses to deceptive actions

Warren-Westgate, Laurence S.; Jackson, Robin C.; Blenkinsop, Glen M.; Hiley, Michael J.

Abstract

High-skilled and recreational rugby players were placed in a semi-immersive CAREN Lab environment to examine susceptibility to, and detection of, deception. To achieve this, a broad window of seven occlusion times was used in which participants responded to life-size video clips of an opposing player ‘cutting’ left or right, with or without a deceptive sidestep. Participants made full-body responses to ‘intercept’ the player and gave a verbal judgement of the opponent's final running direction. Response kinematic and kinetic data were recorded using three-dimensional motion capture cameras and force plates, respectively. Based on response accuracy, the results were separated into deception susceptibility and deception detection windows then signal detection analysis was used to calculate indices of discriminability between genuine and deceptive actions (d’) and judgement bias (c). Analysis revealed that high-skilled and low-skilled players were similarly susceptible to deception; however, high-skilled players detected deception earlier in the action sequence, which enabled them to make more effective behavioural responses to deceptive actions.

Citation

Warren-Westgate, L. S., Jackson, R. C., Blenkinsop, G. M., & Hiley, M. J. (2021). Earlier detection facilitates skilled responses to deceptive actions. Human Movement Science, 80, Article 102885. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2021.102885

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 28, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Oct 19, 2021
• Publication Date: Dec 1, 2021
• Deposit Date: Nov 22, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 20, 2023
• Journal: Human Movement Science
• Print ISSN: 0167-9457
• Electronic ISSN: 1872-7646
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 80
• Article Number: 102885
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2021.102885
• Keywords: Deception; susceptibility; detection; discriminability; bias
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/6605982
• Publisher URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167945721001330?via%3Dihub