Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The study of suspicion in previous research has primarily focused its discussion on the impact of suspicion on deception detection accuracy or the pragmatics of suspicious receivers. The premise of the present study is that cognitive aspects of suspicious receivers must be accounted for to further appreciate their active participation in deceptive communication. The present study attempts to identify a suspicious receiver’s interaction goals and strategic behaviors and find links between the goals and behaviors. Data was collected from seventy-three undergraduate students in dating relationship. The results revealed eleven interaction goals and seven behavioral strategies of suspicious receivers. Some qualitative differences between the goals were found in terms of their association with behavioral strategies. Implications for future suspicion research are discusses as well as the study’s limitations.