60 college students took the Nonverbal Discrepancy Test and judged the truthfulness of videotaped responses to questions. The test is a measure of ability to detect discrepancies in power or affective relations conveyed via visual and paralinguistic nonverbal channels. Correlations suggested that the score was not related to measures of accuracy of discrimination between truthful and deceptive messages.
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