The Verifiability Approach (VA), a lie detection method, postulates that genuine statements contain more verifiable information, whereas fabricated reports include more non‐verifiable details. We investigated whether participants low (n = 19), medium (n = 23) and high (n = 26) on fantasy proneness differ in the (non)verifiability of their genuine and fabricated accounts. The results showed that groups did not differ in terms of statements' (non)verifiability. Overall, fabricated accounts included more non‐verifiable details, but did not differ in verifiable details from genuine stories. The fabricated accounts from each group were given to legal psychology experts (N = 13) who rated accounts' authenticity. Experts more often recognised false accounts from the high fantasy proneness group, hence, high fantasy prone deceivers might be easier to detect than people with lower fantasy engagement. Overall, our results show that the VA is not sensitive to fantasy proneness, however, that experts might be.

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沉闷与创意骗子—谁骗得更好？真实账户和虚假账户的幻想倾向和可验证性

谎言检测方法“可验证性方法（VA）”假定真实的陈述包含更多可验证的信息，而伪造的报告则包含更多不可验证的细节。我们调查了参与者对幻想倾向的低（n = 19），中（n = 23）和高（n = 26）在其真实账户和虚假账户的（不可）验证性方面是否有所不同。结果表明，各组在陈述的（不可）验证性方面没有差异。总体而言，虚假账目包含更多无法验证的细节，但可验证细节与真实故事没有区别。每个小组的虚假陈述都交给了法律心理学专家（N= 13）谁评估了帐户的真实性。专家更经常识别出虚幻倾向高的人群的虚假陈述，因此，虚幻倾向高的欺骗者可能比虚幻参与度较低的人更容易发现。总体而言，我们的结果表明虚拟设备对幻想倾向不敏感，但是专家可能对此敏感。