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Mar 2026

The Signal Inversion Effect

A. C. Applebee and L. N. Combe

A systematic pattern whereby authentic cognitive and linguistic behaviours associated with truthfulness are misidentified as indicators of deception by human observers. Across four studies, disfluency is higher in truthful trial testimony than deceptive testimony (d = 0.60, p = .004), and 21 of 23 publicly believed deception cues are inverted.

Preprint, not peer reviewedJusticeCC BY 4.0DOI via Zenodo
2026

Incentive and Outcome

A. C. Applebee and L. N. Combe

Why paying for something can kill it: blood donation, late fees and the motives we can't see in ourselves.

Preprint, not peer reviewedBehaviourCC BY 4.0
2026

Play Deprivation

A. C. Applebee and L. N. Combe

The systematic suppression of a primary biological system.

Preprint, not peer reviewedPlayCC BY 4.0

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