ABSTRACT

The current study examined the influence of gender on perceived credibility in an international drug trafficking setting. Two hundred law students (approximately half female) assessed a suspect’s credibility in a drug trafficking investigation. The participants read a transcript provided by either a male or a female suspect and rated a suspect as truthful/untruthful and their confidence level in this rating. The combined score represents credibility judgement. ANCOVA indicated a significant main effect of participant gender and a significant interaction between participant gender and suspect gender. Men considered the suspect as more credible than women, but this difference manifested only in the case of a male suspect. In the case of a female suspect, there was no significant gender difference between the participants. These findings highlight the dynamic interplay of the gender of both participants and suspects in the judgement bias field and are discussed in the context of defensive attribution theory. The applied implications address investigations, interrogations and other processes that surround them.

摘要

目前的研究调查了性别对国际贩毒环境中可信度的影响。200 名法学院学生（大约一半是女性）评估了一名嫌疑人在贩毒调查中的可信度。参与者阅读了由男性或女性嫌疑人提供的文字记录，并对嫌疑人的真实/不真实进行评分，以及他们对此评分的信心程度。综合得分代表可信度判断。ANCOVA 表明参与者性别的显着主效应以及参与者性别和可疑性别之间的显着交互作用。男性认为嫌疑人比女性更可信，但这种差异只体现在男性嫌疑人身上。在女性嫌疑人的案例中，参与者之间没有显着的性别差异。这些发现突出了参与者和嫌疑人的性别在判断偏差领域中的动态相互作用，并在防御归因理论的背景下进行了讨论。应用的影响涉及调查、审讯和围绕它们的其他过程。