Figure 1
Self-presentation in an employment interview (Experiment 1).
Figure 2
Self-presentation in a police interrogation (Experiment 2).
Table 1
Linguistic analysis (with LIWC) of participants’ open-ended descriptions. Numbers represent mean number of target words in each dimension (SD in parentheses).
| Crime Role | Theft | Manslaughter | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Witness | Suspect | Witness | Suspect | |
| Men | 8.28 (3.75) | 7.88 (3.88) | 8.38 (5.06) | 8.07 (3.59) |
| Women | 9.59 (3.98) | 9.39 (3.95) | 10.36 (4.59) | 7.91 (4.07) |
| All | 8.96 (3.90) | 8.73 (3.96) | 9.35 (4.91) | 7.98 (3.84) |
| Men | 3.46 (1.36) | 3.67 (1.70) | 3.13 (2.01) | 3.62 (2.12) |
| Women | 3.14 (1.57) | 3.40 (1.87) | 2.89 (2.03) | 4.11 (2.06) |
| All | 3.29 (1.47) | 3.52 (1.79) | 3.02 (2.01) | 3.89 (2.08) |
Figure 3
Self-presentation in a police interrogation (Experiment 3).